A service to remember nine of the 11 men killed in a horrific crash in Hampstead last week was held in Kitchener on Wednesday.

Nine hearses, carrying the victims of the fatal crash, wove their way to St. Anthony Daniel Roman Catholic Church ahead of the memorial.

It may be the largest funeral procession in Waterloo Region's history and hearses had to be brought in from funeral homes as far away as Guelph to handle the procession.

The men, all Peruvian migrant workers, were among 11 people killed in a crash involving a 15-passenger van and a truck last Monday.

The visitation and service gives their extended family in Canada and others who wanted to pay their respects an opportunity to say goodbye.

Father Earl Talbot, pastor at St. Anthony Daniel Roman Catholic Church, is responsible for the service.

"I think basically we're talking about salt of the earth people, people who worked with their hands, poor people who wanted to make life better for their families. So I think it's all the more emphatic, that there are people who are sometimes overlooked, yet they make the world go around."

Services for the other two men killed have already been held.

Juan Castillo, who was originally from Nicaragua but was a long-time Kitchener resident, was buried in the city on Monday.

The truck driver, Christopher Fulton of London, was remembered over the weekend in his hometown.

Three other people, also from Peru, who were injured in the crash, remain in hospital.

The bodies of the nine men remembered are expected to be returned to their native Peru this weekend.