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Remembrance Day in Chilliwack 2026: Cenotaph Ceremony
Chilliwack's Remembrance Day 2026: three cenotaph ceremonies on November 11, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion, with parade details and poppy campaign information.
Written by Remembrance Day 2026
Chilliwack marks Remembrance Day on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, with ceremonies at three sites, hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 295 and the Stó:lō Nation. Everyone is welcome to attend.
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them." Royal Canadian Legion, Chilliwack
The short version
- When: Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
- Where: three sites: Veterans Memorial Park, 45820 Spadina Avenue, downtown; All Sappers Memorial Park, 5571 Vedder Road, Sardis; and the Stó:lō Longhouse, 7201 Vedder Road.
- Host: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 295, with the Stó:lō ceremony.
- Cost: free, and open to the public.
The parade
Downtown, the procession forms at Evergreen Hall, 9291 Corbould Street, at 10am and leaves at 10:30am for Veterans Memorial Park, 45820 Spadina Avenue. In Sardis, the procession forms at Royal Canadian Legion Branch 295, 5661 Vedder Road, at 10:30am and moves to All Sappers Memorial Park, 5571 Vedder Road. For the Stó:lō ceremony, doors open at 9am at the Longhouse, 7201 Vedder Road, the ceremony starts at 10am, and a procession to the memorial site leaves at 10:50am. Members of the public are welcome to line the route and watch as the column passes.
The ceremony in Chilliwack
Remembrance Day in Chilliwack is observed at three ceremonies: downtown at Veterans Memorial Park, in Sardis at All Sappers Memorial Park, and at the Stó:lō Longhouse. 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 Chilliwack business directory for local businesses.
Getting there, parking, and road closures
The ceremony sites are downtown at Veterans Memorial Park, 45820 Spadina Avenue, in Sardis at All Sappers Memorial Park, 5571 Vedder Road, and at the Stó:lō Longhouse, 7201 Vedder Road. 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 also unveils a new donation technology on October 24, a first for a national fundraising campaign that has not yet been detailed publicly. 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 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? Downtown, the service starts at 10am at Evergreen Hall, with the procession at 10:30am to Veterans Memorial Park. In Sardis, the procession and ceremony start at 10:30am. At the Stó:lō Longhouse, the ceremony starts at 10am, with a roll call at 11am. Two minutes of silence are observed at 11am.
Do I need tickets? No. It is free and open to the public.
Where exactly is the cenotaph? At Veterans Memorial Park, 45820 Spadina Avenue, at All Sappers Memorial Park, 5571 Vedder Road, or at the Stó:lō Longhouse, 7201 Vedder Road, hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 295 and the Stó:lō Nation.
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.
Who wrote this
Warren Kroeker
Warren Kroeker grew up in Yarrow and lives in Garrison Crossing, on the ground where the army base used to be. He has been writing about Chilliwack businesses since the malls were the only thing anyone talked about.
