Au champ d'honneur : poème, guerre et coquelicot

Did you know that an Ontarian wrote the famous poem Au champ d'honneur (In Flanders Fields), which later inspired the use of the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance Day? John McCrae wrote this piece during the First World War, while serving as a surgeon in the Canadian artillery. More than a century later, his poem still echoes within the walls of his family home in Guelph, now a museum. Emma Lunau Smith, an eighth-grade French immersion student at John McCrae School, offers her interpretation of the poem In Flanders Fields.