2024
Important National Veteran, Military and Legion Dates
January
1 New Year's Day
27 Holocaust Remembrance Day
February
15 National Flag of Canada Day
28 Gulf War ends (1991)
March
11 Commonwealth Day (RCEL support)
15 Last Canadian soldiers return from Afghanistan (2014)
April
Month of the Military Child
1 Royal Canadian Air Force founded (1924) (100th)
3 Battle of Morel Wood (1918)
4 NATO Accord signed (75th Anniversary) (1949)
9 Battle of Vimy Ridge (1917) (legion flags half staff)
14-20 National Volunteer Week (help out at your Legion)
25 ANZAC Day
25 Battle of Kapyong (1951)
May
3 John McCrae wrote "In Flanders Fields poem
4 Royal Canadian Navy founded (1910)
5 Battle of the Atlantic (1945)
5 Liberation of the Netherlands (1945)
8 VE Day (1945)
19 Canadian Army founded (1855)
21 National War Memorial unveiled (19399
25 Ypres (1915)
28 Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (2000)
29 International Day of UN Peacekeepers
31 End of South African (Boer) War (1902)
31 RCAF Run (through June 16)
June
Legion Rides promotion
Navy Bike Ride (TBD)
2 Canadian Armed Forces Day
4 Miracle at Dunkirk (1940)
6 Normandy Invasion (D-Day)(1944) (80th)
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July
1 Beaumont Hamel (1916)
1 Canada Day (Legion supports Operation Canada Day)
7 Canada ceases combat operations in Afganistan (2011)
26 Vimy unveiling (1936)
27 Korean War armistice (1953)
August
1 NORAD formed (1957)
7-13 Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships
9 Canadian Peacekeepers Day
15 Victory over Japan (1945)
19 Dieppe Raid (1944)
September
Legion 2025 Ealybird Renewal campaign begins
Canada Army Run (TBD)
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2 World War II ends (1945)
3 Merchant Navy Veteran's Day
8 Battle of Medal Pocket (1993)
11 Attack on September 11 (2001)
15 Battle of Britain (1940)
17 Operation Medusa (2006)
20 Military Family Appreciation Day
21 International Day of Peace
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October
14 Van Doos anniversary (1914)
24 Anniversary of United Nations (1946)
25 2024 Annual Poppy Campaign starts
November
1 Announcement of National Silver Cross Mother
8 Indigenous Veterans Day
10 Passchendaele ends (1917)
11 Remembrance Day
11 World War I ends - Armistice Day (1918)
18 Battle of the Somme (1916)
December
5 International Volunteer Day (Help your Legion)
6 Halifax explosion (1917)
10 Nobel Prize for Peace awarded to Peacekeepers (1988)
25 Christmas (Legion supports Operation Santa Claus)
25 Fall of Hong Kong (1941)
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