McCrae House
1915
Text from the plaque
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.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
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The County of Wellington
The City of Guelph
Outside the house on the southeast corner of
McCrae Blvd and Water Street
3 blocks west of Gordon Street
N 43 32.169 W 80 14.688
Recorded May 2009. Check current access before visiting.
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