With Newfoundland joining Canada in 1949, its people kept many of their unique historic events, not the least being to mark the sacrifice of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment on July 1, 1916, on the Somme. It was with no small irony that the new country they joined celebrated that day as its birthday. But by the ’60s, a new generation of Canadians untouched directly by the world wars found little meaning in Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day faded in relevance. In 1968, the Globe and Mail noted that Remembrance Day was no longer a day that mattered to most Canadians and was now only an event of “public indifference.”

Source: National Post November 11, 2020 11:06 UTC