Hundreds gather for Remembrance Day ceremony in Vancouver

B.C.'s largest Remembrance Day ceremony was heldat Victory Square in downtown Vancouver this morning.

The ceremony featuredmilitary marching bands, a moment of silence, a 21-gun salute, and a singing of In Flanders Fields a war poem written during the First World War by Canadian physicianJohn McCrae.

A procession of veterans kicked off the event at 10:30 a.m. by marchingto Victory Square for the cenotaph ceremony.

Watch a replay of the ceremony:

CamCathcart,the ceremony's director, has been involved with the ceremony for more than a decade. Hesays public interest in the event hasn't waned.

It's the second largestRemembrance Day event in the country.

This year marks 99 yearssince the end of WW I. It's also been100 years since the Battle of Passchendaele, which left more than 15,000 Canadians wounded or dead.

Find a list of events in other Metro Vancouver cities here.