Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day
noun Date: 1918 November 11 set aside in commemoration of the end of hostilities in 1918 and 1945 and observed as a legal holiday in Canada; also Remembrance Sunday

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

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