Montreal's annual Remembrance Day ceremony was held Friday morning at the cenotaph at Place du Canada, which hasn't seen a Remembrance Day ceremony in years.
For the last few years, the ceremony was held on the grounds of McGill University, while the area around Place du Canada was being renovated.
The ceremony featured the traditional moment of silence at 11 a.m. — to mark the exact time the armistice to end the First World War was signed on Nov. 11, 1918.
That was followed by a 21-gun salute.
The traditional laying of the wreaths was accompanied by a brass band playing "Hallelujah", the standard by Leonard Cohen, who died earlier this week.
Federal heritage minister Melanie Joly was in attendance, as was transport minister Marc Garneau, and Guérette Vincent, the mother of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, the soldier killed in 2014 in a south shore parking lot by Martin Couture-Rouleau.
Hundreds of vets, both young and old, were also on hand — including Tex Dawson, who fought in the Second World War.
"I always remember at the end of the war, I happened to be on duty and the rest of the chaps were sleeping, and it came through the loudspeaker, the Tannoy, that the war had ended. So I had to go and wake them up and tell them that, but they wouldn't believe me," said Dawson.
Hulick Saincylys is a younger veteran. He served in the Armed Forces for a year.
"Those men and women who served before us is the reason why right now we can celebrate that day and continue to live our way of life, with the democracy, the liberty, and justice that make Canada such a great country," said Saincylys.
-CTV Montreal contributed to this report