Gallery: Elgin commemorates VE Day with service of remembrance at the Plainstones

Gallery: Elgin commemorates VE Day with service of remembrance at the Plainstones

Crowds gathered on the Elgin Plainstones to commemorate VE Day, marking 80 years since the end of World War II in Europe.

Port Elgin Legion Branch 340 commemorates VE Day

Port Elgin Legion Branch 340 commemorated Victory in Europe Day, May 8th (2025), with a wreath laying ceremony at Port Elgin Cenotaph, in tribute to the Canadians who played a key role in ending war in Europe. Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945, marked the end of World War II in Europe and, throughout Europe and the U.K., there have been celebrations leading up to today’s 80th anniversary.  Some 22 Canadian Veterans, now in their nineties and so…