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Remembrance Day Calgary 2017: Where you can pay your respects on Nov. 11

If you're looking to attend a Remembrance Day ceremony in Calgary on Saturday, there are plenty to choose from. Here is a list of ceremonies that are open to the public.

Various ceremonies across the city are open to the public

Calgarians gathered to lay wreaths at the Military Museums in the city's southwest in the 2014 Remembrance Day ceremony. (CBC)

If you're looking to attend a Remembrance Day ceremony in Calgary on Saturday, there are plenty to choose from.

Here is a list of ceremonies that are open to the public.

The information is provided by the City of Calgary.

Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

Tickets are free and issued at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Veterans and seniors will be given priority.

Weather permitting there will be a march past outside on the west side of the building immediately after the conclusion of the auditoriumceremonies.

Doors open at9:30 a.m.Ceremony begins at10:30 a.m.

Battalion Park

Service begins at10:30 a.m.at3001 Signal Hill Dr. SW

Hosted by the Kings Own Calgary Regiment.

Calgary International Airport

Airport Pipe Band and Honour Guard will form up at10:30 a.m.in the Concourse A - Departures Level.

Canadian PacificOgden Memorial

Service is at CP's Memorial Square, 7550 Ogden Dale Road S.E., which was builtin commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War.

The service begins at10:40 a.m.in the top parking lot by the 69 Ave. S.E. and Ogden Dale Rd. S.E. entrance.

Field of Crosses

RemembranceDayceremony at the flagpole. Service begins at10:30 a.m.

Members of the public are welcome to attend any of theceremoniesor to visit the site at any time to walk among the crosses.

The Field of Crosses is located alongMemorial Drive, between 3 Street and Centre Street.

Public parking is available at the west end of the park.

Fort Calgary

This service is facilitated by the RCMP Veterans' Association of Calgary.

This moving commemorative ceremony features bagpipes, bugling, readings and choral singers.

Ceremony is at10:30 a.m. at750 9 Ave. S.E. and will befollowed by an artisan's fair.

KerbyCentre

Doors open at10:15 a.m.at 1133 7 Ave. S.W. and the ceremony and wreath laying begin at10:50 a.m.

Military Museums

Service begins at10:30 a.m.at 4520CrowchildTr. S.W.

Admission is free and those attending are asked to bring a non-perishable food donation for the Veterans' Food Bank.

The Museum will be open after the service.

Poppy Plaza

This park at Memorial Drive and 10 St. N.W.commemorates those who have served to protect our freedom and security.

The park is open from5 a.m. to 11 p.m.daily.

Burnsland CemeteryCeremony

Join the 33 Engineer Squadron (41 Combat Engineer Regiment) for a ceremony at the Burnsland Cemetery,27 Ave. and Spiller Rd. S.E.

Union Cemetery

Ceremony presented at 27 Ave. and Spiller Rd. S.E. by 214 (Hawkwood/Citadel) Boy Scouts Troop and the Common Wealth War Graves Commission.

The Hangar Flight Museum

Please plan to arrive at 4629McCallWay N.E. no later than10:15 a.m., but arriving even earlierto find parking is recommended.

The museum will be open with admission by donation for the remainder of theday.