State Funeral Urged

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November 21, 2006

State funeral for last Great War vet approved

OTTAWA (CP) — The Commons has voted unanimously in favour of offering a full state funeral to the last Canadian veteran of the First World War.

The House approved an NDP motion asking the government to honour all who served that war by sponsoring a state funeral when the last of its vets dies.

There are believed to be three Canadian survivors of the conflict, all well over 100 years of age.

The concept was first proposed before Remembrance Day by the Dominion Institute, which said such a funeral would help promote memories of the long-ago conflict.

More than 60,000 Canadians died in the fighting between 1914 and 1918.