Half-Masted Flags at City Facilities in Observance of the National Day of Remembrance for Terrorist Victims

The City observes the National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism on June 23 of each year. In observance of this day, all City facilities—aside from the community flagpole at City Hall—have their flags lowered to half-mast until Monday morning, June 24.

In honor of those who have died in acts of terror in Canada and around the world, the Canadian government declared June 23, 2005, to be the inaugural National Day of Remembrance for Victims of Terrorism.

The date was selected to fall on the anniversary of the June 23, 1985, crash of Air India Flight 182. That day, 280 Canadians were among the 329 people killed when a bomb went off on the flight from Toronto to London, England.