Remembrance Day
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Remembrance Day
On the first day of Term 2, the Grade 11 and 12 Political Science classes traveled to University of Toronto to discuss and see firsthand the significance of Remembrance Day in Canada. Braemar students saw the U of T Soldier’s Tower which commemorates the U of T community in World War I and II. Students read the poem “In Flanders Fields” written by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel, John McCrae, and learned about the significance of the poppy.
In Flanders Fields
BY JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Remembrance Day at University of Toronto
