Veteran's Day

Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. It is 100 years since the battles of Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele. I thought the ceremony today would see more people on attendance because of the significance but it was not so.
My daughter had a hockey game today that was scheduled over the 11th hour. She wasn't playing though because my husband and I feel that our 7 year old is not more important at that time than the soldiers in his family that fought in WWI and WWII. My kids sit well though the ceremony and the 2 hours passed quickly.
There were a lot of empty chairs. I arrived early to get a seat and I really didn't need to. Was it less busy because it is on Saturday this year or it is the combination of that, apathy and a lack of connection to the wars from the younger generation, because lets face it, my kids never knew their relatives that served in the wars, and even the generation of the baby boomers never knew anyone who was killed in combat in those two wars. There are very few veterans of those wars left. At our ceremony in my town, there was one. Only one. We bus in troops from the nearest base to help out with the ceremony.
As we progress further in time from these events, the generation that witnessed them is but almost gone. The last remaining Canadian WW1 vet passed away in 2010, with the last allied vet passing away in 2012. As of 2014, there were 75,900 Canadian WWII vets with the average age being 91. 91!!!! I can't believe I cannot find a more recent statistic of the numbers because that stat is 3 years old and stated the average age was 91. There is definitely way less Canadian veterans of WWII still remaining alive today. I would guess to see at least 10,000 a year pass away based on the fact that I can find more yearly numbers prior to 2014.
There are currently 305,700 Canadians over 90 alive in 2017. Roughly 10% of the population of Canada served in WWII. We know they did not all survive the war, but if they had, we could estimate that there are now 30,570 vets remaining alive.
So we know it is probably less than that number. Half that? Possibly. But it appears that they don't really want to release that information.