Remembrance Day in Hope 2026: The Cenotaph Ceremony and the Poppy

Hope marks Remembrance Day on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, with a ceremony at the cenotaph in Memorial Park, 325 Wallace Street, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion. Everyone is welcome to attend.

"At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them." Royal Canadian Legion, Hope

The short version

• When: Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
• Where: the cenotaph in Memorial Park, 325 Wallace Street, Hope, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion.
• Ceremony: about 10:30am, with two minutes of silence at 11am.
• Host: the Royal Canadian Legion.
• Cost: free, and open to the public.

The parade

The Colour Party marches from the Legion Hall to the cenotaph in Memorial Park, 325 Wallace Street, for the Remembrance Day service. Members of the public are welcome to line the route and watch as the column passes.

The ceremony in Hope

The Remembrance Day ceremony takes place at the cenotaph in Memorial Park, 325 Wallace Street, beginning about 10:30am. The service includes the act of remembrance, the Last Post, two minutes of silence at 11am, and wreath laying by local organisations, branches, and cadets. Browse the Hope business directory for local businesses.

Getting there, parking, and road closures

The ceremony site is the cenotaph in Memorial Park, 325 Wallace Street, in central Hope. Expect road closures and parking restrictions around the cenotaph on the morning of November 11. Arrive early to find parking and secure a good viewing spot.

The poppy, and what changed this year

The poppy campaign funds Veterans and their families, and money raised locally stays in the community where it was donated.

The biggest change for 2026 is the date. The National Poppy Campaign now starts on October 24, which the Legion has made a permanent annual start date. It used to begin on the last Friday of October, so poppies are out roughly a week earlier than people are used to. The campaign runs to November 11.

How you can give:

• Traditional boxes in shops and Legion branches, still the most common.
• Pay Tribute tap boxes, run with RBC, in hundreds of locations. One tap of a credit or debit card, or a phone or watch wallet, donates $5.
• Point of sale at partners such as Starbucks, which passes local donations to the local branch.
• TD branches, which distribute poppies across the country.
• At the door, through the Legion's Amazon Canada collaboration, now in its third year. The poppies are biodegradable.
• Online through the Legion's national site.

The Legion's new donation technology for 2026 is tap-on-phone: volunteers at participating branches can take contactless donations on their own smartphones, by debit or credit card or digital wallet. It is being piloted at more than 80 branches in 2026, with support from BMO, and it sits alongside the tap boxes rather than replacing them.

Flypasts, and why there is no time to give you yet

The Royal Canadian Air Force marks Remembrance Day with flypasts over ceremonies across the country. Routes and times are released only in the day or two before November 11, not weeks out, so no 2026 route had been published as of late October. Any precise time printed now would be invented.

Be at the cenotaph in Memorial Park by 10:15am in case a flypast is confirmed and announced locally in the first week of November.

Questions often asked

What time is the ceremony? The Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph in Memorial Park, 325 Wallace Street, begins about 10:30am on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, with two minutes of silence at 11am.

Do I need tickets? No. It is free and open to the public.

Where exactly is the cenotaph? At the cenotaph in Memorial Park, 325 Wallace Street, Hope, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion.

Where do I get a poppy? From traditional boxes in shops and Legion branches, from the tap boxes in partner locations, at Starbucks tills, at TD branches, online through the Legion, or delivered through the Legion's Amazon storefront. The campaign now opens on October 24.