The Tisdale Royal Canadian Legion held their Remembrance Day ceremony outside, at the cenotaph located at Memorial Park, from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
“I would just like to thank everyone for joining us on this cold and windy day to celebrate Remembrance Day and remember those who gave their lives for their country,” said Sam McAdam, the Tisdale Legion’s president.
Pastor Jack Wilson, the Legion’s padre, spoke of the generations that would have created the Remembrance Day traditions that are marked today.
“So many years ago, when Remembrance Day was birthed, the audience would have been filled with men and women who actually fought in the wars. As they would have had the services, the mind would have went back to the things they saw, the things they did, their friends and family who never came home,” he said.
“It's important that we celebrate them and that we remember why we do this. We honour those who have fought for peace, fought for our freedoms. They left this land and, of course, many of them never came home.”
The padre said that many of the people of those generations would have immigrated to Saskatchewan – and they wouldn’t have been from countries that were on the same side in the world wars. Yet they still found a way to come up with solutions that let them work together and live as neighbours.
Wilson connected that to the modern day.
“We live in a strange time, as we all know, and we see a lot of things that would divide us,” Wilson said.
“I think it is the pursuit of peace that needs to unite us. We need to somehow hold on to that and make sure that that's our goal with one another.”
