Category: Canadian history
Remembrance Day
Tim Cook, the director of research at the Canadian War Museum, said if anyone can be credited for the creation of the poppy as a symbol, it’s John McCrae, the physician from Guelph, Ont., who wrote In Flanders Fields while serving in the First World War. “It’s deeply entrenched with…
Historical literacy in Canada
History of all from the Greek verb that means to know. So at its heart, history is a search for knowledge, so the question becomes, why in Canada do we have low historical literacy rates. Why are Canadians failing to remember their past?Although historical literacy can be considered low, pride…