News Articles
We are pleased to invite you to take a few moments to browse through any series of Beechwood articles and features according to your area of interest.
In order to view any given article simply click on the title. PDFs may also be downloaded as per the instructions should you wish to keep a hard copy of an article.
We encourage you to revisit our Media section frequently to keep up to date on stories from the National Cemetery of Canada.
Articles and features are listed in reverse chronological order.
2012 Articles
2011 Articles
- Start of tradition to honour Vets
- Wreath-laying ceremony begins sombre new tradition
- Dépôt de couronnes pour encourager les hommages aux soldats
- Group hopes to start new December wreath tradition
- Hommage aux soldats morts au combat
- Sombre gathering at Beechwood
- Remembrance Day observed across Ottawa
- Tens of thousands of veterans buried in unmarked graves
- Barry puts pleasing stamp on music
- Ottawa police to get own cemetery at Beechwood
- Loss Still Felt
- Sombre concert recalls tragedy
- Ottawa pays tribute to those lost on Sept. 11 Sunday, September
- Remembering the Canadians killed on 9/11
- Ottawa teacher wins Canadian Wildlife Federation Youth Mentor Award
- National Military Cemetery marks grim Dutch anniversary
- The nuances of Beechwood Cemetery
2010 Articles
- 9/11 victims, fallen Canadian soldiers honoured at Beechwood ceremony
- Ceremony honours Canadian 9/11 victims
- Beechwood ceremony honours the fallen
- ‘We had a nice life together,’ recalls wife of WWII veteran
- Canada mourns 9/11 victims
- Anniversary hijacked by politics
- Tears for 9/11 Victims
- Le Canada aussi se souvient
- Beechwood forgives debt man owed for wife's funeral
- A friend to ‘Friendless Women’
- Ottawa Chamberfest concerts use churches
- The Second Annual National Memorial Ride
- Dutch mark liberation at Beechwood Cemetery
2009 Articles
- Queen's Colour laid to rest
- 'Monumental contribution' hailed by Harper
- 9/11 has lost 'none of its horror': Harper
- CWGC has yet to determine whether storm damaged markers at Beechwood Cemetery
- Our national memories
- Television and Radio Clips
- Feds designate historic cemetery as national burial ground
- Beechwood désigné « cimetière national »
- Beechwood set to be named national cemetery
- Fallen honoured at military cemetery
- Emotion and reflection in salute to fallen heroes
- Don't quit on dreams, Hale tells Carleton grads
- Beauty, among the dead
- A place for the living
- Harper marks eight years of sacrifice in Afghanistan, affirms 2011 deadline
- Le cimetière Beechwood obtient la Sanction royale
- Beechwood Cemetery gets national tag
- Douglas Fleming burial site to become national cemetery
- Prentice Designates Beechwood a ‘national’ cemetery
- Ottawa's Beechwood to be national cemetery
2008 Articles
- A place for all to mourn
- Governor General opens national memorial centre
- ‘Sacred space’ honours fallen
- Hall Of Colours Pays Tribute To Regiments
- Canadians remember the brave
- Governor General declares memorial centre officially open
- 'Walk through a place of memory'
- A contemplative place
- Nation pays tribute to war dead
- East-end students heading for Norway
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