Nunavut, Nunavik represented at national Remembrance Day ceremony
Longtime Canadian Ranger, sister of Kuujjuarapik veteran take part while illness forces Gov. Gen. Mary Simon to miss event
From left, Sgt. Titus Allooloo, Anthony Ittoshat and Salamiva Weetaltuk take part in the Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami)
As Canadians took part in Remembrance Day events Tuesday, the North was visible at Ottawa’s National War Memorial ceremony.
Sgt. Titus Allooloo, a Canadian Ranger from Pond Inlet and a former MLA in the N.W.T. legislature, read the Act of Remembrance in Inuktitut.
That proclamation, an excerpt from Laurence Binyon’s For the Fallen, is a fixture at Remembrance Day ceremonies and includes the line, “At the going down of the sun and in the morning / We will remember them.”
Also during the ceremony, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami’s wreath was laid by Salamiva Weetaltuk and Anthony Ittoshat of Kuujjuaraapik.
The pair made the trip south from Nunavik to honour the late former veteran Eddy Weetaltuk, who was Salamiva’s older brother and Ittoshat’s uncle and mentor, ITK said on its Facebook page.
Eddy Weetaltuk is believed to have been one of the first Inuit to enlist in the Canadian Army. He took part in many battles during the Korean War before returning to Nunavik after the armistice in 1953.
He chronicled his life on the front lines through numerous artworks and in his book, From the Tundra to the Trenches, published after he died in 2017.
Eddy Weetaltuk died in 2005. He was honoured with a grave marker in Umiujaq in 2019, and with a temporary display at the Canadian War Museum in 2023.
Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, who usually attends the national Remembrance Day ceremony as the commander-in-chief of the Canadian Armed Forces, was absent this year due to illness, her office announced Monday.
In the North, Nunavut politicians were among the crowd of approximately 300 at a ceremony at Iqaluit’s cadet hall.
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Doug.
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