On Wednesday November 11 2020 at 7pm (Pacific time) our 5th annual “Let Peace Be Their Memorial” wreath-laying ceremony will be held online. Connect then to Youtube live link . See also the Vancouver Unitarians event page to register for a reminder.

Through this annual wreath ceremony and our white lapel poppy campaign

Vancouver Peace Poppies hopes to encourage Canadians to broaden their Remembrance Day focus:

• to include the civilians who now make up 90% of conflict victims;
• to challenge the beliefs, values and institutions that make war seem inevitable;
• to urge our government to promote and fund effective non-military means of dispute resolution.

This special evening will include an overview by MC and VPP co-founder Teresa Gagné; participatory singing with local favorites Fraser Union, Jim Edmondson and Madeleine de Little; a selection of powerful, thought-provoking, and sometimes humorous anti-war poetry; and a keynote talk by Dr. Kenneth Christie, Program Head of the Human Security and Peacebuilding graduate programs at Royal Roads University: ‘How and why Human Security can provide the key to sustainable peace in the 21st Century’.

A representative of the Vancouver Unitarians Social Justice Committee will place six beautiful handmade wreaths for Refugees Fleeing Conflict; Children Killed, Injured or Orphaned by War; Women Raped and Victimized in Wartime; Environmental Devastation Caused by War; Indigenous Victims Of Genocide & Cultural Destruction; and finally a hopeful wreath ‘For Peace’.