Event

Poppies: The Symbol of Remembrance Day

Thursday, November 1, 2018 09:00toSunday, November 11, 2018 17:00
Redpath Museum Entrance Hall, 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA

 

Remembrance Day

To remember all those who have fallen to fight for freedom, red poppies will be sold at the museum's front desk. The funds collected will help support veterans and their families.

 

 

 

"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."

Extract of "In Flanders Fields": a poem by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae

Land Acknowledgement

McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.

The Redpath Museum's director EDI statement.

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