Canada: Old City Hall of Toronto

On Thursday I got four postcards: two from Canada, one from Russia and one from Germany.

One of the cards from Canada shows the Old City Hall of Toronto. The Old City Hall of Toronto was built between 1889 and 1899 in the Romanesque Revival style. It housed the city council from 1899 to 1962.

Stamps:
100 years In Flanders Fields (issued 03-05-2015)
In Flanders Fields is a war poem written on 3rd May 1915 by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae from Canada. He wrote the poem after his friend was killed during the Second Battle of Ypres. It is one of the most popular and most quoted poems about World War I.

Thank You very much Tristan!

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In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.