Figuratively speaking.

• Author: MacIntyre, John
• Position: NEWS

1915

Year of the Battle of Ypres when Canadian Lt.-Col. John McCrae was inspired to write the poem In Flanders Fields on sighting the poppies growing beside a grave of a close friend who had died in battle.

1921

Year the first poppies were distributed in Canada to commemorate Remembrance Day.

10:58 a.m. on Nov.11,1918

Time and date when Pte. George Lawrence Price was felled by a bullet - two minutes before the armistice went into effect.

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