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Premier Gary Doer is inviting Manitobans to join him and international dignitaries and friends at the International Peace Garden for a memorial event to pay tribute to those who died in the tragedy of Sept. 11. "We join with our American neighbours in remembrance of the thousands who died Sept. 11," said Doer. "It is important to remember the life and contributions of our citizens who died that day Ð people like Christine Egan, a Manitoban who touched the lives of many in our province." Doer, along with Deputy Prime Minister John Manley, U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci, North Dakota Governor John Hoeven and U.S. Consul General Todd Swartz, will participate in the event at the International Peace Garden. The memorial will begin at 11 a.m. on Sept. 11 at the site of the 9/11 Memorial Cairn at the Peace Garden. A guard of honour, including firefighters from Manitoba and North Dakota, will lead a march to the memorial site, and school choirs from Manitoba and North Dakota will sing their respective national anthems. The Peace Garden is one of the few locations that has remnants of the World Trade Centre. A memorial to victims of Sept. 11 has been created out of the ten twisted steel girders now located at the garden. Straddling the border between Manitoba and North Dakota, the International Peace Garden was officially dedicated on July 14, 1932, as a symbol of the peaceful relationship between Canada and the United States.