![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t see any reason why it can’t be another 100 years and then some.” “To have something like this, back in 1921, thought of as our flower of remembrance - and it’s still going strong after 100 years - that showed a lot of vision for those veterans that decided on this …. “There’s not many things that you can have been around for 100 years,” legion president Roy LaBuick said. In Moose Jaw, Tourism Moose Jaw lit up Mac the Moose in red while the legion building on High Street West was bathed in crimson. ![]() While the poppy’s centennial celebration quietly began at the beginning of this year, the Royal Canadian Legion officially recognized the flower’s anniversary on July 6, 2021, with announcements across the country and many government and civilian organizations lighting up buildings and statues in red. Since then, the legion, its branches, and its members have worked to uphold this tradition of remembrance and use the poppy to honour the country’s fallen military personnel and recognize veterans of all ages today. So, on July 6, 1921, the association - which unified in 1925 with other veterans’ groups to form the Canadian Legion - adopted the poppy as a flower of remembrance. The association thought this was a great way to support veterans and remember those men who had died fighting in the First World War. John McCrae’s famous poem In Flanders Fields, France’s “poppy lady” Madame Anna Guérin approached Canada’s Great War Veterans Association and suggested it adopt the poppy to help veterans financially. ![]()
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