Relatives, friends and fellow soldiers buried three members of Canada's Afghanistan force on Saturday in funerals in Newfoundland, Quebec and Edmonton.

The coffin of Cpl. Stephen Bouzane is carried into Sacred Heart Cemetery in St. Patricks, N.L., by fellow soldiers from 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Light Infantry on Saturday, June 30.
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The three — Cpl. Stephen Frederick Bouzane, 26, Pte. Joel Vincent Wiebe, 22, and Sgt. Christos Karigiannis, 31 — died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb on June 20 near the town of Sperwan Ghar, southwest of Kandahar.

The three were members of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton.

Bouzane was buried in St. Patricks, N.L., northwest of Grand Falls-Windsor, with a full military service. 

Maj. G.T. Zilkalns, commanding officer of one of the Princess Patricia's companies, said Bouzane knew the difference between existing and living a life that mattered.

"Helping the Afghan people mattered. Being a friend and a soldier for his fellows from 3PPCLI mattered. Stephen never settled for just existing."

Pte. Joel Wiebe's fiancée Anna Thede, left, and his mother, Sherry Clark, grieve before his funeral service at Trinity Lutheran Church on Saturday, June 30, in Edmonton. Pte. Wiebe was one of three soldiers killed on June 20 by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
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Wiebe's funeral was attended by about 50 members of the 3rd Battalion. The funeral was private, but later an officer read a statement from Wiebe's fiancée, Anna Thede, describing the family's fond memories of the soldier.

More than 500 mourners attended the service for Karigiannis at the Sainte-Rose-de-Lima Church in Laval, near Montreal.

Twenty soldiers marched with the casket and there was a 12-soldier ceremonial guard.

Hundreds of mourners wore yellow ribbons to show their support of the troops. 

A total of 60 Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan.