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Cancellation - Visit to New Brunswick

| Service Canada | news releases

Please note that unfortunately the visit to New Brunswick has been cancelled due to a flu virus contracted by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada.


National Sentry Program

| National Defence | backgrounders

With the mounting of sentries at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the National Sentry Program (NSP) reinforces the Canadian commitment to remember and honour Canadians who served in both World Wars, as well as those who have contributed to Canada's long standing tradition of military excellence through to the present day.


National Sentry Program launched at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

| National Defence | news releases

Today, as part of Canada's commemorations marking the centennial of the start of the First World War, the Canadian Armed Forces announced the sentry program at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier honouring Canada's fallen will be expanded from two months a year to seven months a year and will now include special military anniversaries.


Canada and the Beginning of the First World War

| National Defence | backgrounders

An assassination in the Serbian capital of Sarajevo in June 1914 went almost unnoticed in Canada. Few Canadians expected that it would lead them into war; fewer still anticipated the sacrifices Canada would be called to make.


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