Alberta Remembrance Day services honour Wainwright soldiers

Remembrance Day ceremonies across Alberta on November 11 honoured four soldiers killed in an October 17 fire during training at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, as injured troops, their families and military colleagues gathered amid continuing recovery efforts.

The fire killed Sgt. Morgan Wong, 26, of Edmonton, and privates Shaun Farrell, 23, of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; Aidan Goulding, 23, of North Vancouver; and Hayden Lykkemark, 19, of Langley, British Columbia. Thirty-nine other soldiers were injured. Three investigations into the fire are underway.

In Wainwright, hundreds attended a ceremony at an arena, where the service began with a moment of silence at 11 a.m. and a prayer remembering the dead and those still healing. Residents also left flowers and wreaths at a nearby memorial tower commemorating Canadians killed in the First and Second World Wars.

Roughly 2,000 people lined a road leading to the St. Albert Cenotaph, where about 300 members of the soldiers’ regiment, the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, marched in the service. Farrell’s family attended and laid a wreath in his honour. At a separate St. Albert gathering, attendees heard the...