The City of New Westminster’s 2014 Remembrance Day ceremonies will pay tribute to one of its biggest supporters.
Freda Hogg, an honorary member of the city’s Remembrance Day committee, recently passed away.
“We are going to be dedicating this year in honour of Freda Hogg,” said Ruby Campbell, the city’s community projects coordinator. “There will be a wreath that is being laid by her son. In Flanders Fields will be read by her granddaughter, Cheryl Hogg.”
Col. Bill White was acquainted with Hogg and will deliver the memorial address at the Armouries.
As in past years, the annual Remembrance Day ceremony begins at 10 a.m. in the Royal Westminster Regiment Armouries. People are normally asked to be seated in the Armouries by 9:30 a.m., but demand for seats could be even greater this year because of the killings of soldiers in Ottawa and Montreal.
Although the city had planned to cancel overflow seating at Queens Avenue United Church, it’s being offered as in past years.
Once the ceremony wraps up in the Armouries about 10:40 a.m., people will go to the cenotaph in front of city hall, two minutes of silence will be observed at 11 a.m., followed by a wreath-laying ceremony.
A section of Royal Avenue and Sixth Street will be closed to traffic during the ceremony.
