Canada Day 2006
Some, including Canadian veterans of the Royal Canadian Legion, thought the site of the tomb deserved a military or police guard of honour as a symbol of respect and to protect it from vandalism and desecration. An incident on July 1, 2006 brought these demands into sharp focus when Dr. Michael Pilon, a retired Canadian Forces major, photographed three young men urinating on the nearby War Memorial shortly after the annual Canada Day fireworks show over nearby Parliament Hill.
In the summer of 2007, a pair of sentries was mounted by the Ceremonial Guard in full dress uniform, from 9 am to 5 pm.
Read more about this topic: Canadian Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier
Famous quotes containing the words canada and/or day:
“Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might be the colored portion of the map, is but a little clearing on the banks of the river, which one of those syllables would more than cover.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)