REMEMBRANCE DAY
Ontario schoolchildren remember
We remember: James Strath Public School
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 | 2:40 PM ET
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Students at James Strath Public School in Peterborough, Ont., held their Remembrance Day ceremonies two days early this year so the proceedings could be taped and streamed to Canadian Forces personnel stationed in Afghanistan on Nov. 11.
The traditional Remembrance Day ceremony featured the elementary and middle school's junior and intermediate choirs, as well as the Grade 8 band.
Evelyn Robertson, a Grade 8 student at James Strath Public School, plays The Last Post during Tuesday's Remembrance Day ceremony. (Lance Anderson/Peterborough This Week)Several family members of Canadian soldiers currently on active duty attended the ceremony, as did Kathy Bulger, whose son Cpl. Nick Bulger was killed in action in July 2009.
Grade 8 students each picked a name from the local Wall of Honour and did research to learn about the soldier they chose.
The ceremony also featured a talk by author and broadcaster Ted Barris, who urged the students to see the soldiers as young people.
According to Peterborough This Week, the idea to videotape this year's ceremony began in the moments following last year's emotional Remembrance Day service, when former James Strath school principal and now board superintendent Peter Mangold said, "I wish we had filmed this."
TV Cogeco provided the cameras for this year's service and made the video available to CBCnews.ca so it could be streamed to soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
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