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Finding new things to say about “In Flanders Fields” is tricky. Most Canadians can recite a line or two. Many know the whole poem off by heart; maybe pausing to ponder did the poppies “blow” or “grow.” (The answer is “blow” in the first line; “grow” in the last verse.) On May 3, 1915, John McCrae, […] I think it caught people’s attention, and maybe made them think about Remembrance Day just a little bit longer. Thirty-four simple wooden crosses honour some of the Humberside students who died in the World Wars. They had lived down the street, around the corner, or maybe right next door. […] Toronto neighbourhoods offered both surprises and traditional memorials as we organized 1,508 new names for “back to school” 2017. A happy surprise was solving the puzzle of an unidentified WWI plaque displayed in a local café. The long-forgotten Aura Lee Club, a social and sports group active from 1887 to 1925, was not a school, but […] |
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