Don’t Forget to Remember

“Don’t Forget to Remember” transforms 4,784 personal messages from Canadians into a powerful tribute marking The Royal Canadian Legion’s 100th anniversary.
We use sticky notes to remember the things we don’t want to forget. This Remembrance Day, The Royal Canadian Legion is turning that simple, everyday act into something much bigger. Created from 4,784 handwritten sticky notes collected from communities across Canada, the 30-foot Remembrance Mural has been unveiled in the Great Hall of Toronto’s Union Station, a place where Canadian soldiers once departed for service, many never to return. Together, the thousands of individual messages form a portrait of Lance Corporal Allan “Scotty” Davidson, the celebrated Kingston, Ontario hockey player who captained the Toronto Blueshirts to the city’s first Stanley Cup victory in 1914. With a promising career ahead of him, Davidson volunteered to serve in the First World War. He fought on the front lines in France and Belgium before being killed in action in 1915, at just 24 years old. Davidson is one face, but the mural remembers many. His portrait stands as a symbol of more than 120,000 Canadians who died in service to their country, while each handwritten note preserves a personal act of remembrance from a Canadian today.