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McCrae House
Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2009
Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted November, 2011
Plaque Location
The County of Wellington
The City of Guelph
Outside the house on the southeast corner of
McCrae Blvd and Water Street
3 blocks west of Gordon Street
Coordinates: N 43 32.169 W 80 14.688 |
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Plaque Text
This limestone cottage was the birthplace of John McCrae, author of In Flanders Fields, the famous poem written in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres. Built in 1858, the house is a typical mid-nineteenth-century Ontario cottage with its trellised verandah and cedar shingle roof. The exterior has been carefully restored to its appearance in the 1870s, when it was the McCrae family home.
Another plaque at this location
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae
Related Ontario plaques
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae 1872-1918
John McCrae 1872-1918
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