Canada 1914-1918 Ypres

All 68,000 names of our dead in WW1 will be projected onto an outdoor screen in Ypres, Belgium in a number of schools in Canada, and on the website.

The link is here:

http://www.1914-1918.ca/




For seven nights the Canadian names will be projected in the centre of the city of Ypres near the Cloth Hall. This simultaneous vigil will be streamed live to this website for each of the days of the vigil. Please use the Ypres Vigil tab located at the top of this page to see the vigil between November 4th to November 10th.

Time Zones Stretching from British Columbia to Belgium, the vigil is being presented across 11 time zones (see map). Because each name appears simultaneously in each province of Canada and in Belgium, the time zone differences will affect the starting time of the vigil in each province. All times are anchored in Belgium time. In Ypres the vigil will start at 5pm each day. Therefore the vigil will start at the following local times in Canada:
Time Zone Canadian Provinces In This Time Zone Start Time
Nov 4 - 6 Start Time
Nov 7 - 10 Belgium Time
Nov 4 - 10
Pacific British Columbia, Yukon 9:15am 8:15am 5:15 pm
Mountain British Columbia (parts), Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut (Mountain), Saskatchewan (Nov 4-6) 10:15am 9:15am 5:15 pm
Central Manitoba, Nunavut (Central), Ontario (W), Saskatchewan (Nov 7-10) 11:15am 10:15am 5:15 pm
Eastern Nunavut (Eastern), Ontario (E), Qu?bec 12:15pm 11:15am 5:15 pm
Atlantic New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Qu?bec (E), Labrador (W) 1:15pm 12:15pm 5:15 pm
Newfoundland Newfoundland, Labrador (E) 1:45pm 12:45pm 5:15 pm


I for one will have the vigil page on my second screen:

http://www.1914-1918.ca/vigil.html

This is great, they did a similar vigil last year for those with no known grave), I was at the National memorial in Ottawa very early on a rainy morning (0151 hrs) to see my Great Uncles name

Starts tomorrow.

That is so awesome.

It has started... http://www.1914-1918.ca/vigil.html

bump.. day 2

Excellant. Watching it now.

P.S. need a poppy smilie

Had it on my second monitor for the past 2 days. I'm waiting for 2 men with my family name to appear, tomorrow night, and Sunday afternoon.

My old high school is projecting this on a wall inside the school for the students and outside the school at night for the public to see.
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Thunder Bay�s Churchill high school is among schools across the nation remembering those who lost their lives in war.
Churchill students have linked with more than 150 schools in Canada, as well as a junior college in Switzerland and a vigil in Ypres, Belgium, to honour the 68,000 Canadians who lost their lives during the First World War.
The seven-day vigil began on Thursday at Churchill with a memorial ceremony.
�During this time, the names of each Canadian who gave their lives, over 9,000 a day, will be simultaneously projected at each of the vigil locations,� said Churchill principal Rowan Seymour.
�At night, they will be projected on the wall outside the school for all the community to see.�
At each quarter hour, a photograph will be shown of one of the 3,400 cemeteries where Canadian soldiers are buried in Belgium and France.
Ypres is a special area to honour, Seymour said, because it was the location of heavy fighting and heavy casualties.
The vigil�s opening included remarks from the Lakehead District School Board and Royal Canadian Legion Branch 5 representatives, and readings by Churchill students.
�The vigil is a unique way for the community to remember those who gave their lives to protect the nation,� said school board trustee Bill Mokomela.
�The names remind us of the sacrifices.�
The Legion�s Roy Lamore said he and other veterans are just some of those who put their lives on the line to secure freedom.
�War isn�t like a football or hockey game, where you cheer for your friends,� he said. �War is real with lots of sadness, sorrow, and in the end, no one wins.�
The vigil concludes Nov. 10.

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Kewl Thanks

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