DIE CUT = REMEMBRANCE POPPY - 100th Anniversary = Canada 2021 #3307 MNH

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Country

Canada

Catalog Number

3307

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General Issue

Condition

Mint (NH)

Stamp Format

Single

Item Description

Condition: MNH

Grade: VF (Very Fine)
REMEMBRANCE POPPY100TH ANNIVERSARY
Single booklet stampDIE CUT to Shape from Quarterly PackCanada 2021MNH
"P" - PermanentTM Domestic rate (1st class mail)
Celebrate Remembrance Day and the 100th anniversary of the Remembrance Poppy in Canada with this PermanentTM domestic rate stamp.This stamp issue marks the 100th anniversary of the official adoption of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance in Canada and the launch of the National Poppy Campaign. The significance of the poppy is said to date back to the Napoleonic Wars in Europe – when the battlefields and resting sites of many fallen soldiers were enriched with lime from rubble. The chalky soil enabled the poppy (Papaver rhoeas) to thrive before the lime was absorbed. In WWI, the flowers inspired Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae of Guelph, Ontario, to pen the poem “In Flanders Fields” in May 1915. The poem, in turn, inspired several women and charitable organizations to create fabric poppies as a memorial and to raise funds for veterans and families of the fallen. On July 6, 1921, one of the women, France’s Anna Guérin, proposed that the Great War Veterans’ Association of Canada (now The Royal Canadian Legion) officially adopt the poppy as Canada’s symbol of remembrance. Canada’s first National Poppy Campaign was launched later that year.Millions of Canadians show respect and honour for veterans and fallen soldiers during the annual campaign, held in the weeks leading up to Remembrance Day (November 11), by wearing a poppy. Poppies are also often worn at veterans’ funerals and other commemorative events.

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