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If you haven't been to Canada's second largest military museum, (or haven't been there since they expanded few years back), they are offering free admission on Remembrance Day.  
 
Two particularly poignant things to see that day would be:  
 
The original printing plate for the poem In Flanders Fields (Dec 1915). That publication in Punch magazine would soon make it known world-wide. (see photo):  
 
The Victoria Crosses of two of Canadian soldiers, one a Manitoban.  
 
Links:  
 
- More info on RCA museum hours:  
http://www.brandon.com/index.php?pageid=EVEDET&eventid=4650  
 
- More on RCA's Victoria Crosses:  
http://westenddumplings.blogspot.com/2009/02/additional-westman-dumpling-victoria.html  
 
- John McCrae's Manitoba connections, including Brandon:  
http://thiswaswinnipeg.blogspot.com/2009/12/december-8-in-manitoba-history.html  
 
- 2009 Free Press article on the expanded museum:  
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/the-big-guns-hang-out-at-museum-in-shilo-48721437.html  
 
 
Edited by mrchristian, 2010-11-01 21:34:00