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NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ITALIAN-CANADIANS
NATIONAL CAPITAL DISTRICT

Our Motto
"Preserving Our Past . . . Enriching Our Future"

Remembrance Day

Tribute to Anthony Barbaro
ICHC 2017
"The Untold Story of Lance Corporal Antonio Barbaro,"
by Alice van Bekkum


Reading: Trina Costantini-Powell
Poem: John Mc Crae
In Flanders Fields_Audio
Lest We Forget

“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.”
(Laurence Binyon, “Ode of Remembrance”)

2020 Veterans’ Week
Canada Remembers the end of the Second World War
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. This bitter conflict raged for six years and saw over one million brave Canadians serve in uniform around the globe. READ MORE...
Father Gino, gives blessings at the National Congress of Italian-Canadians Remembrance Day Service November 4, 2018.
William "Bill" McLachlan, 95 years young, reading at the National Congress of Italian-Canadians Remembrance Day Service November 4, 2018.
Matthew Halton CBC Ortona, Italy
Matthew Halton a CBC reporter with this audio reporting live from the war front Ortona, Italy 1945.
Press Play to listen the audio reporting.
NCIC / ICHC VIRTUAL REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY 2020
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Remembrance Day 2024

Solemn sanctuary under the Memorial Window from 1949, created by Guido Nincheri. This area was blessed with holy water and incense by the Apostolic Nuncio Ivan Jurkovic.

Memorial Window from 1949, created by
Guido Nincheri

November 10, 2024 Remembrance Ceremony at St. Anthony's Church.
The NCIC offered up two masses, one to mark the 10th anniversary of the killing of Corporal Nathan Cirillo and another to honour the young men of the Parish who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. The Congress wreath was on the altar next to the uniform of a soldier.
Tribute to Lance Corporal Antonio Barbaro
Video courtesy Tele-30, Ottawa

Wartime posters display at the Italian Canadian Historical Centre November 4, 2018 (Courtesy of Marc Racine)



National Congress of Italian-Canadians Wreath - Cerimonia dei Caduti November 2018
St. Anthony's Church and Piazza Dante
Picture of Wreath for the Messa dei Caduti and ceremony outside-November 2019
THE "ACES"
Courtesy of Marc Racine


Remembrance Day 2017 -National War Memorial-Ottawa
Remembrance Day 2017 -National War Memorial-Ottawa


NCIC-ICHC -Wreath presentation by Gabriella and Matteo Aquilino Remembrance Day Ceremony - November 2019



Retired Ottawa Police Staff Sergeant Brad Hampson
November 2019
The Ottawa Journal, November 22, 1949

75th Anniversary of Liberation: The Dutch Still Honour Canadian Soldiers
It was 75 years ago that the Second World War finally came to an end.
The Netherlands country honours its Canadian liberators.
Army Casualty List, The_Ottawa_Journal
Friday, March 16-1945
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