In 1921, the Royal British Legion in the UK began selling poppies to raise funds for veterans and their families. This initiative quickly spread across the Commonwealth, becoming an annual tradition ...
Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and teacher born in Guelph, Ont. – to write his memorial poem In Flanders Fields, which led to the poppy becoming an enduring symbol of remembrance worldwide.
One of the Canadians killed in action early in the First World War inspired Lt.-Col. John McCrae – a Canadian doctor and teacher born in Guelph, Ont. – to write his memorial poem In Flanders Fields, ...
A Grade 12 student from the town of Sturgis has been recognized nationally for a poem he wrote in honor of Remembrance Day. Jake Soltys, from the Sturgis Composite School, won first place in the ...
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in ...
A BEAUTIFUL garden of poppies has been created by a group of Scouts ahead of Remembrance Day. The ninth Warrington East Scout Group, based in Gorse Covert, is made up of children aged four to 14. They ...