Remembrance Day services across British Columbia have fallen silent for two minutes to honour the sacrifice of war and military veterans, with some attendees reflecting on traditions of service running through their families.

Retired RCMP Sgt. Don Bindon, who was on his way to the service at Victory Square in Vancouver dressed in the red serge uniform, says his son is in the army and his father also served in the army during the Second World War.

Bindon says he marches every year he can, to honour the "awful lot of very good men and women" who have died in war on behalf of Canadians.

There were flyovers from Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft in the B.C. Interior, on Vancouver Island, and at the service at Victory Square, where a Sikorsky Cyclone helicopter roared overhead at the site of

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