Sacred ground: Canadian delegation in Belgium for Remembrance Day ceremonies

CTV News is part of a Canadian delegation commemorating fallen Indigenous Canadian service members from the First World War. The group will attend a series of ceremonies and events throughout Belgium right up until Remembrance Day.

Hundreds of school children watched in silence as buglers performed the Last Post at the Menin Gate in historic Ypres, Belgium, Wednesday night.

The moving ceremony takes place every evening at 8 p.m. to honour and remember soldiers who fought and died in Ypres during the First World War.

Children and descendants of veterans place wreaths made of poppies to show their respect and to remember those who died in the Great War over 100 years ago.

Youri Van Miegroet is a ceremonial assistant with the Last Post Association.

Every night, along with his colleagues, the volunteer makes sure the ceremony goes as planned.

“Tonight it was British children, it was Dutch children and it was Belgium children, so it was a great mixture of different countries,” said Van Miegroet.