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McCrae House

and

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae


There are two plaques at this location.
Both can be seen on this page.

McCrae House

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2009

McCrae House

Photo by contributor Wayne Adam - Posted November, 2011

Plaque Location

The County of Wellington
The City of Guelph
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.





Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2009

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae

Photo Source - Wikipedia

Plaque Text

Canadian poet, physician and soldier, McCrae was born in this house November 30, 1872. He died at Wimereux, France, January 28, 1918. While Medical Officer to the 1st Artillery Brigade, he wrote his famous poem "In Flanders Fields" in a dugout near Ypres in April, 1915.



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