On Tuesday, Nov. 11, a few hundred people attended the 2025 Remembrance Day ceremony at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 561 Cenotaph on Manitoba Road in Elliot Lake. This year’s event marked the 107 th anniversary of the end of First World War.

Legion members, cadets and city officials marched from the Legion Branch a couple of hundred yards to the cenotaph on a sunny day with a chill in the air as hundreds of residents lining the sidewalk.

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