D-Day’s 82nd anniversary to be marked with local parade and memorial service this afternoon

A parade and memorial service in East Toronto will take place today (Sunday, June 7) to mark the 82nd anniversary of D-Day.

The Royal Canadian Legion Zone D-3 will be hosting the event.

The parade will take place along Kingston Road on the afternoon starting at 1:30 p.m. today. Legion members and cadets will be marching in the parade.

The parade will travel east along Kingston Road from Norway Junior Public School, 390 Kingston Rd., to St. John’s Norway Cemetery on the northwest corner of Woodbine Avenue and Kingston Road.

The parade will march into the cemetery and gather in the Veterans Section for a 2 p.m. memorial service.

D-Day on June 6, 1944 was the start of the invasion of France and the liberation of Europe by Allied troops to end the Second World War.

More than 14,000 Canadian military members took part in the D-Day invasion. Canadian troops secured Juno Beach at the cost of more than 1,000 casualties, with 359 killed.