Canadian history, Canadian politics

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…

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Canadian history

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow.Between the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, fly.Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lie,In Flanders fields.…

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