With Remembrance Day right around the corner, Oakville's Sir John Colborne Senior Centre has created a series of poppy displays to commemorate the event.
The initiative was originally created by centre member Margaret Larson, whose inspiration for the display was a video she watched on YouTube showing the Tower of London display with nearly 1 million poppies in the fields outside of the building.
Every poppy represented a person who had given their lives during the first and second World War.
Stunning image - The Tower of London pours 888,246 poppies from a window to honour WWI's British deaths pic.twitter.com/r5nbhxo6DH
— Andrew Bloch (@AndrewBloch) August 2, 2014
Margaret took most of her inspiration from the draping poppies that came down from one of the windows of the tower. With that idea in mind, the Sir John Colborne Centre assembled more than 30 volunteers to help knit and crochet poppies to put on display.
This initiative has gone on for "multiple years", but for 2024, the centre created so many poppies that they ran out of wall space to use and still had several poppies left.
"It came out better than the way I wanted it to, it's just gorgeous," said Margaret.
Margaret decided to enter what she called "phase two" of her plan and she placed all of the remaining poppies on the outside of the facility in flower pots and in the garden.
The display will be open to the public until Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, 2024 at the senior centre on the intersection of Third Line and Lakeshore Road.