The Lapel Poppy can be worn every day of the Poppy Campaign and is removed at the end of the Remembrance Day ceremony. Many people place their poppy on a wreath or at the base of the cenotaph or memorial as a sign of respect at the end of the ceremony. The poppy may be worn at commemorative events throughout the year, such as anniversaries of significant battles, a memorial service, and other similar occasions.

Event organizers should seek advice from the Royal Canadian Legion on the use of the poppy for events outside of the Poppy Campaign. The Royal Canadian Legion suggests that the poppy be worn on the left lapel of a garment and as close to the heart as possible. The poppy became widespread in Europe after soils in France and Belgium became rich in lime from debris and rubble from the fighting during the First World War.

Although the majority of the French Canadian population resides within the English-speaking Canadians find the clearest method is to write out the date, eg.

Canadian identity refers to the unique culture, characteristics and condition of being Canadian, as well as the many symbols and expressions that set Canada and Canadians apart from other peoples and cultures of the world. Primary influences on the Canadian identity trace back to the arrival, beginning in the early seventeenth century, of French settlers in Acadia and the St.

Lawrence River Valley and English, Scottish and other settlers in Newfoundland , the British conquest of New France in , and the ensuing dominance of French and British culture in the gradual development of both an imperial and a national identity. Carrying through the 20th century and to the present day, Canadian aboriginal art and culture continues to exert a marked influence on Canadian identity. The question of Canadian identity was traditionally dominated by two fundamental themes: first, the often conflicted relations between English Canadians and French Canadians stemming from the French Canadian imperative for cultural and linguistic survival; secondly, the generally close ties between English Canadians and the British Empire , resulting in a gradual political process towards complete independence from the imperial power.

With the gradual loosening of political and cultural ties to Britain in the twentieth century, immigrants from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean have reshaped the Canadian identity, a process that continues today with the continuing arrival of large numbers of immigrants from non British or French backgrounds, adding the theme of multiculturalism to the debate.

Canada’s large geographic size, the presence and survival of a significant number of indigenous peoples, the conquest of one European linguistic population by another and relatively open immigration policy have led to an extremely diverse society. The Metis are an indigenous people whose culture and identity was produced by a fusion of First Nations with the French, Irish and Scottish fur trade society of the north and west. From the founding by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons of Port Royal in , the beginnings of French settlement of Acadia and the founding of Quebec City in by Samuel de Champlain , Canada was ruled from and settled almost exclusively by French colonists.

By allying with the Algonquins , for example, Champlain gained an alliance with the Wyandot or Huron of today’s Ontario, and the enmity of the Iroquois of what is now northern New York State. Although English settlement began in Newfoundland in , and the Hudson’s Bay Company was chartered in , it was only with the Treaty of Utrecht in that France ceded to Great Britain its claims to mainland Nova Scotia and significant British colonization of what would become mainland Canada would begin.

The Seven Years’ War between Great Britain and France resulted in the conquest of New France by the British in at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham , an event that reverberates profoundly even today in the national consciousness of Quebecers. Although there were deliberate attempts made by the British to assimilate the French speaking population to English language and culture, most notably the Act of Union that followed the seminal report of Lord Durham , British colonial policy for Canada on the whole was one which acknowledged and permitted the continued existence of French language and culture.