National Youth Remembrance Contests
Posters - Poems - Essays
Deadline: November 22, 2024
Are you an artist or wordsmith? Share your creativity and imagination in honour of remembrance.
Enter a piece about Remembrance and what it means to you and your country for the chance to win local and national prizes.
Branch Rules for Literary + Poster Submissions:
1. The student's information must be correct and printed CLEARLY on the back of the poster, poem or essay.
Please include student's first and last name, grade, age, category, and school.
2. All entries should be dropped off at the Legion (40194 Glenalder Place, Garibaldi Highlands) in the marked
black bin with red lid, just inside the front door.
3. Winners going to the next level will need the long information form filled in and signed by the parent
affirming this is their child's work.
Poster Contest Rules
1. This contest is open to all Canadian students in the Canadian school system.
2. Entries will be no larger than 56 cm x 71 cm.
3. Please choose which contest you would like to enter and use only the following:
a. Colour: ........................ Full colour.
b. Black & White: .......... Pencil, Charcoal and/or india ink.
4. Entries will be judged on originality, expression of designated subject,
drawing and illustration. Computer generated entries will not be accepted.
5. The poster shall reflect REMEMBRANCE of the Canadian men and women who
did not return home.
a. If symbols are used, Canadian symbols shall be pre-eminent.
b. Such national symbols are Canadian and provincial flags, coats of arms,
and representative flowers, birds or animals, as well as all forms of Canadian historical and current
military dress.
6. Only one student per entry. One entry per category.
7. Students who have been out of the educational system for more than two consecutive years
are ineligible to compete in the Poster Contest at any level.
Literary Contest Rules – Poems and Essays
1. This contest is open to all Canadian students in the Canadian school system.
2. Entries may be submitted in either English or French.
3. Entries will be marked on the basis of originality of thought, expression, presentation,
grammar, spelling and Canadian content. Remember this is an essay or a poem, not a story.
4. Candidates will use only one side of the page 22mc x 28 cm.
5. Entries must not exceed the word (Sr 800, Int 500, Jr 350) or line limit (32).
6. Only one student per entry. One entry per category.
7. Students who have been out of the educational system for more than two consecutive years
are ineligible to compete in the Poster Contest at any level.
PRIZES
BRANCH LEVEL
First Place - Certificate and $50
Second Place - Certificate and $40
Third Place - Certificate and $30
Honourable Mention - Certificate and $5
PROVINCIAL LEVEL
Cash prizes based on age group.
DOMINION LEVEL
All winners at the national level are awarded a cash prize for their work. First Place Senior Winners are eligible for a trip to Ottawa
and an opportunity to represent the youth of Canada at the National Remembrance Day Ceremony.
