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Contact Us:
Labour Relations LR@rcea.ca 
General Inquiries office@rcea.ca

On this day, we honour those who have fought for our country and our freedom.

The Red Poppy

The familiar symbol of the poppy owes much of its fame to Canadian poet and soldier John McCrae. In Flanders Fields, McCrae’s best-known poem, was inspired by and made reference to the poppies which grew along the Western Front. It opens, “In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row…”