It is unfortunately a little-known fact that Lieut. Col. John McCrae, author of the poem In Flanders Fields, has a direct link with our area through his mother, Janet Eckford McCrae. Janet came to Canada in 1851, along with her widowed father, John Eckford, and siblings J.C. and Anne. John Eckford took the first patent…
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