Despite rainy weather, a large crowd gathered to honour Canada's war dead in Vancouver on Wednesday. Return to Homepage A Canadian veteran gets a helping hand to lay a flower at the cenotaph in Vancouver's Victory Square on Remembrance Day, Wednesday, Nov. (Credit: Jason Payne)A forecast of heavy rains didn't scare away the crowds who gathered to pay respects for Canada's war dead at the Remembrance Day service at Vancouver's Victory Square.