Niagara Region residents will be welcomed to mark Veteran's Day on Monday at a ceremony at Veterans Memorial in Hyde Park. The observation of the holiday will begin at 11 a.m. and feature the thoughts of Falls Mayor Robert Restaino and others on the importance of the holiday.

Armistice Day and commemorated the end of fighting in 1918 on the Western Front in Europe between the Allies and Germany. The Armistice of Compiègne was signed earlier in the morning but many people remember from a history lesson that “at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month” the armistice went into effect and,