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Remembrance Day in Port Coquitlam 2026: Cenotaph Ceremony
Port Coquitlam's Remembrance Day 2026: Veterans Park cenotaph ceremony on November 11, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion, with parade details and poppy campaign information.
Written by Remembrance Day 2026
Port Coquitlam marks Remembrance Day on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, with a ceremony at the cenotaph in Veterans Park, 2580 Shaughnessy Street, hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 133. Everyone is welcome to attend.
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them." Royal Canadian Legion, Port Coquitlam
The short version
- When: Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
- Where: the cenotaph in Veterans Park, 2580 Shaughnessy Street, hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 133.
- Host: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 133.
- Cost: free, and open to the public.
The parade
The parade proceeds along Shaughnessy Street from Wilson Avenue to McAllister Avenue, beginning at 10:10am, and concludes with a wreath-laying service at the cenotaph in Veterans Park. Members of the public are welcome to line the route and watch as the column passes.
The ceremony in Port Coquitlam
The Remembrance Day ceremony takes place at the cenotaph in Veterans Park, 2580 Shaughnessy Street. 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 Port Coquitlam business directory for local businesses.
Getting there, parking, and road closures
The ceremony site is in Veterans Park, 2580 Shaughnessy Street, in downtown Port Coquitlam. 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.
Road closures are in effect on Wednesday, November 11, from 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Shaughnessy Street from Wilson Avenue to Elgin Avenue, Leigh Square Place east of Shaughnessy Street, Whyte Avenue east of Shaughnessy Street to the southbound alleyway, Marpole Avenue west of Shaughnessy Street to the southbound alleyway, McAllister Avenue east of Shaughnessy Street to Donald Street and west of Shaughnessy Street to the southbound alleyway, and Donald Street from Wilson Avenue to McAllister Avenue, which closes temporarily for approximately five minutes during the parade.
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? The parade begins at 10:10am on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, with the service at the cenotaph in Veterans Park, 2580 Shaughnessy Street, and wreath laying and two minutes of silence at 11am.
Do I need tickets? No. It is free and open to the public.
Where exactly is the cenotaph? At the cenotaph in Veterans Park, 2580 Shaughnessy Street, hosted by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 133.
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
Fern Kellaway
Fern Kellaway grew up in Mary Hill, three streets from the rail corridor, and her grandfather worked the CPR yards for most of his life. She lives near Lions Park now and has walked the Traboulay loop weekly for twenty years, which is how she knows which businesses are still there.
