Volume 53

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John McCrae and the Mysterious Miss Packard

Author: Linda Granfield Publication Date: 2014 Edited: 2023     Figure I: "Penance" hand-written on "Alderley" stationery. (Photo courtesy of Guelph Museums - McCrae House (M1999.6.1)).   "ALDERLEY/KENNEBUNKPORT, MAINE." So reads the blue-inked letterhead on a piece of stationery carefully preserved in Poems, a richly bound book in the Guelph Museums' collection. The name of the author of the book, John...

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Guelph in 1915: Patrionism and Public Service in Lt.-Col. John McCrae's Birthplace

Author: Debra Nash-Chambers Publication Date: 2015 Edited: 2023     Historian Jonathan Vance notes that while Canada did not declare war against the German and Austro-Hungarian empires independently in August of 1914, the First World War is viewed as marking Canada's progress from colony to nationhood. Vance supports the contention that the participation and courage of Canadians in key battles like...

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"Young Guelph" on the Home Front, 1914-1918

Author: Cynthia R. Comacchio Publication Date: 2015 Edited: 2023     When the call to fight, "At Britain's side," was sounded in August 1914, Canadians of all ranks across the land rallied to, "Do their bit," as the wartime slogan urged. This, "War to end all wars," signaled the new importance of the home front. As never before, the Great...

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One Hundred Years Later: Celebrating "In Flanders Fields"

Author: Leanne Piper Publication Date: 2015 Edited: 2023     Statue of John McCrae in front of the Guelph Civic Museum.   One hundred years ago, Lieutenant-Colonel (Lt.-Col.) John McCrae raised his pen and lit a torch that still burns today. McCrae was still reeling from the death of his friend Lt. Alexis Helmer on May 2nd, 1915 when, according...

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