Lesson 4

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  • Sir Alan Napier McNab’s built Dundurn Castle for his home in the 1830s and it became a National Historic site in 1984.

    The former home of Sir Allan Napier McNab towers atop the Burlington Heights. “During the War of 1812, the British Army established a military post at the site."

  • In 1812, the Burlington Heights site of Dundurn Castle was a military post.

  • Lt-Col John MCrae wrote the famous poem “In Flanders Fields.”

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    1967 Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant in Canada

    The teams re-enacted the route taken by voyageurs engaged in Canada’s colonial fur trade. They left Rocky Mountain House in Alberta on May 24th, 1967 and arrived in Montréal on September 4th.

  • The new Waterloo Regional Curatorial Centre was built adjacent to the village renamed the Doon Heritage Village.

    It is a living history museum on a 60 acre site “that shows visitors what life was like in Waterloo Region in the year 1914.”

  • The McCrae House museum became a National Historic Site in 2004.

    The McCrae House museum integrates galleries and programs related to McCrae’s personal history, the Great War, and the impact of the poppy as durable international symbol of remembrance. The exterior of the house has been restored to 1872. It is adjacent to a war memorial and commemorative gardens first established in 1946.
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    Many of the commemorative representations of War of 1812 battles by Canadian and American re-enactors have added drama and pageantry to the bicentenary celebrations from 2012 to 2015.