Surrey holds Remembrance Day observances across the city on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, with ceremonies at cenotaphs hosted by local Royal Canadian Legion branches. Anyone wishing to pay their respects is welcome at any of them.

“At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.” — Royal Canadian Legion, Surrey

The short version

When: Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
Where: ceremonies at cenotaphs across Surrey, hosted by local Royal Canadian Legion branches.
Host: local Royal Canadian Legion branches.
Cost: free, and open to the public.

A civic war memorial surrounded by autumn maple trees

The parade

Parades form in Surrey neighbourhoods and move to local cenotaphs for the Remembrance Day services. Members of the public are welcome to line the routes and watch as the columns pass.

A stone monument with wreaths at its base in a quiet park

The ceremonies across Surrey

Remembrance Day ceremonies take place at cenotaphs across Surrey. Each service includes the act of remembrance, the Last Post, two minutes of silence at 11am, and wreath laying by local organisations, branches, and cadets. See the full Remembrance Day Surrey listing and the Royal Canadian Legion Surrey branches for details.

A civic building with flags at half-mast against a grey sky

Getting there, parking, and road closures

Ceremony sites are spread across Surrey neighbourhoods. Expect road closures and parking restrictions around each cenotaph on the morning of November 11. Arrive early to find parking and secure a good viewing spot.

A quiet park pathway lined with trees in early November

The poppy, and what changed this year

The poppy campaign funds Veterans and their families, and money raised locally stays in the community where it was donated.

The biggest change for 2026 is the date. The National Poppy Campaign now starts on October 24, which the Legion has made a permanent annual start date. It used to begin on the last Friday of October, so poppies are out roughly a week earlier than people are used to. The campaign runs to November 11.

How you can give:

Traditional boxes in shops and Legion branches, still the most common.
Pay Tribute tap boxes, run with RBC, in hundreds of locations. One tap of a credit or debit card, or a phone or watch wallet, donates $5.
Point of sale at partners such as Starbucks, which passes local donations to the local branch.
TD branches, which distribute poppies across the country.
At the door, through the Legion’s Amazon Canada collaboration, now in its third year. The poppies are biodegradable.
Online through the Legion’s national site.

The Legion also unveils a new donation technology on October 24, a first for a national fundraising campaign that has not yet been detailed publicly. It sits alongside the tap boxes rather than replacing them.

A rain-washed street leading toward a downtown cenotaph

Flypasts, and why there is no time to give you yet

The Royal Canadian Air Force marks Remembrance Day with flypasts over ceremonies across the country. Routes and times are released only in the day or two before November 11, not weeks out, so no 2026 Lower Mainland route had been published as of late October. Any precise time printed now would be invented.

Be at your local cenotaph by 10:15am in case a flypast is confirmed and announced locally in the first week of November.

Questions often asked

What time are the ceremonies? The Remembrance Day services at cenotaphs across Surrey begin at 11am on Wednesday, November 11, 2026.

Do I need tickets? No. They are free and open to the public.

Where exactly are the cenotaphs? At cenotaph sites across Surrey, hosted by local Royal Canadian Legion branches.

Where do I get a poppy? From traditional boxes in shops and Legion branches, from the tap boxes in partner locations, at Starbucks tills, at TD branches, online through the Legion, or delivered through the Legion’s Amazon storefront. The campaign now opens on October 24.