Tim Cook, the director of research at the Canadian War Museum, said if anyone can be credited for the creation of the poppy as a symbol, it’s John McCrae, the physician from Guelph, Ont., who wrote In Flanders Fields while serving in the First World War.
“It’s deeply entrenched with John McCrae and In Flanders Fields,” said Cook. “The western world was reciting that poem.”
“It’s deeply entrenched with John McCrae and In Flanders Fields,” said Cook. “The western world was reciting that poem.”