As the sun rose on a sno wy morning, Torontonians gathered in Prospect Cemetery for a Remembrance Day ceremony honouring veterans and those who died in combat.

The event is the first of several that will mark Remembrance Day across the city.

This year, ceremonies also mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War.

The Prospect Cemetery ceremony is annually held at sunrise to honour the early hours of when the armistice of the First World War was signed, said John Monahan, CEO of the Mount Pleasant Group.

People stood under snow-dusted trees as the drone of bagpipes reverberated around the cemetery’s Field of Honour, which Monahan said was dedicated over a century ago to local soldiers lost in the First World War.

Four silent sentries stood with their heads bowed in front of a

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