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People from across Petrolia and Central Lambton took a moment to remember those who paid the ultimate price this morning. People crowded around the cenotaph in Petrolia, Wyoming, and Alvinston and across the nation to remember the service of Canadian soldiers.

The Independent’s cameras captured these scenes from the Act of Remembrance in Alvinston.

 

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