It’s often said no one has ever truly died as long as you remember them and speak their name.

It's more complicated but nonetheless true for Canada’s Unknown Soldier, who was laid to rest under the frozen, watchful gaze of his Great War comrades at the foot of the country’s National War Memorial, in the heart of the nation’s capital.

A casualty of the First World War whose identity remains a deliberate mystery, his life was snuffed on a distant French battlefield more than a century ago.

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A victim as much as a powerful symbol, the Unknown Soldier represents — in anonymity — all of the lives that vanished in the fog and fire of war.

He is a soldier whose duty to the country never ends.

His face, his name, the very essence of his individualit

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