On Saturday, 5 November, we moved from our basement apartment into the home of David and Janet Henderson. The Hendersons are serving as president and matron of the Edmonton Alberta Temple and now live in the temple president's home. We will be very comfortable here.

14 Chestermere Crescent, Sherwood Park, Alberta

Yesterday, 11 November, was Remembrance Day in Canada, and coincides with the USA's Veteran's Day. Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.

The red remembrance poppy has become a familiar emblem of Remembrance Day due to the poem "In Flanders Fields" written by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae.

We attended a Remembrance Day service in the University of Alberta's Universiade Pavilion, affectionately known as the Butterdome. We ended up sitting near some missionaries.

 

The Butterdome is a multi-purpose arena

Sisters Rivera, Dearden, Kathalay, and Passey

Elders Standiford, Wells, and Thomsen

The arena and participating groups

Scottish Bagpipe Band

The service included dignitaries placing memorial wreaths in front of a cenotaph. (A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere. Although the vast majority of cenotaphs honour individuals, many noted cenotaphs are instead dedicated to the memories of groups of individuals, such as the lost soldiers of a country or of an empire.)

We have sung Canada's National Anthem,"O Canada," several times. Here is a link to a rendition found on YouTube: "O Canada"

Canadians love their country, and are proud to call it home. Unlike Southern California where we knew several people who wanted to live elsewhere, we have yet to meet a Canadian that wants to leave.