"McCrae House was a project of the Col. John McCrae Birthplace Society, an organization dedicated to creating a museum of the birthplace of John McCrae. The Society's dream was realized in 1968 with the official opening of the museum. In 1983 this museum was amalgamated with the Guelph Civic Museum to form Guelph Museums." McCrae took part in World War One and was the auther of the poem "In Flanders Field"