McCrae House

McCrae House is a National Historic Site of Canada in Guelph, Ontario.

Ontario · 108 Water St., Guelph, Ontario · location approximate

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MCCRAE HOUSE This limestone cottage was the birthplace of John McCrae, author of In Flanders Fields, the famous poem written in May 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres. Built in 1858, the house is a typical mid-nineteenth-century Ontario cottage with its trellised verandah and cedar shingle roof . The exterior has been carefully restored to its appearance in the 1870s, when it was the McCrae family home.

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LA MAISON MCCRAE Dans cette petite maison de pierre à chaux, construite en 1858, est né John McCrae, l'auteur de In Flanders Fields, célèbre poème composé en mai 1915 durant la seconde bataille d'Ypres. Avec sa galerie ornée de treillis et son toit de bardeaux de cèdre, cette demeure évoque les maisons ontariennes du milieu du XIXe siècle. Restaurée avec soin, elle a retrouvé son apparence extérieure des années 1870 alors qu'elle était habitée par la famille de John McCrae.

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