Canada honors the sacrifice of international peacekeepers on the Sunday closest to August 9
Every August, Canada pauses to honor the blue-helmeted heroes who risk their lives in global conflict zones, marking the anniversary of the deadliest single day in Canadian peacekeeping history.
National Peacekeepers' Day commemorates the tragic events of August 9, 1974, when a Canadian transport plane was shot down by Syrian missiles. All nine peacekeepers on board were killed, marking the greatest single-day loss of life in the history of Canadian overseas missions.
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