People take part in a Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph on the grounds of the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Thursday, November 11, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito (File photo)
Mounties in Cranbrook are investigating an act of vandalism against the Kootenay city's cenotaph on Remembrance Day.
City workers, firefighters and police scrambled to clean graffiti that read, ``the real heroes are the vaccinated'' before the ceremony took place.
Cranbrook wasn't the only B-C community to see COVID-19 vaccine-related disruptions to Remembrance Day memorials.
Mounties in Kelowna say officers responded as 75 to 100 demonstrators gathered at the cenotaph just before 11 a-m to speak against vaccine mandates.