The HMCS Nanaimo corvette ship that escorted merchant ship convoys in the Atlantic during the Second World War. (Photo courtesy of the Government of Canada)

Holten Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands contains 1,393 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. This is where the tradition of placing candles on Canadian soldiers’ graves each year originated. (Photo submitted)

Japanese Canadians leaving Vancouver for the internment camps at Slocan, 1942. (Leonard Frank/Nikkei National Museum)

Wait for me, Daddy. The photo was captured on Nov. 1, 1940 as members of the B.C. Regiment (Duke of Connaught’s Own Rifles) were preparing to board the S.S. Princess Joan at the New Westminster CPR docks. (Claude P. Detloff)

Steve Dunsdon was one of more than one million Canadians to serve during the Second World War. He served in the Royal Canadian Army Service Corp from 1942 to 1945, in England, France, Belgium and Germany. After the war, he was involved with the Royal Canadian Legion. From 1984 to 1986, he was the Dominion President of the Royal Canadian Legion. (Contributed)

Canadian soldiers landed at Juno Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. This one one of many battles fought during the Second World War. (Contributed)

Service clubs, including members of the Elks Lodge No. 431 in White Rock, marched in the city’s Remembrance Day ceremonies. (Black Press file photo)