Hundreds gathered Friday on a remote stretch of the Prairies to remember the 9/11 terrorist attacks in a ceremony that also affirmed close bonds between Canada and the United States.
Firefighters from across southern Manitoba marched to the skirl of a bagpipe at the International Peace Garden, a park straddling the Canada-U.S. border at Manitoba and North Dakota.
Salvaged beams from the destroyed World Trade Center in New York City sit in the garden as part of a permanent memorial to the attacks 25 years ago.
Jason Shaw, a deputy fire chief in Winnipeg, said communities and countries came together on Sept. 11, 2001, and that the love and…
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