** Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch for " Rock Your Baby " performed by George McCrae

After a few years as a surveyor, McCrae joined the Victorian Government service, eventually becoming Deputy Registrar-General, and also a prominent figure in literary circles.

Notwithstanding his long service in government, McCrae lost Brandon West by 352 votes to Scott Smith of the NDP.

He considered himself a soldier first ; his father was a military leader in Guelph and McCrae grew up believing in the duty of fighting for his country and empire.

McCrae himself used either word when making handwritten copies for friends and family.

It was translated into numerous languages, so many that McCrae himself quipped that " it needs only Chinese now, surely ".

It is true that he had the authority of Kendall's poem " On a Street ", but years afterwards George Gordon McCrae told the present writer that Kendall " made the worst of everything including himself ".

* Captain Augustus McCrae — Co-owner of the Hat Creek Cattle Company, McCrae considers himself the brains of the outfit.

McCrae was moved to the medical corps and stationed in Boulogne, France, in June 1915 where he was named lieutenant-colonel in charge of medicine at the Number 3 Canadian General Hospital.

McCrae had no doubt about Kendall having at times given way to excessive drinking, but stated positively that he had never actually seen him the worse for drink.

The band's " Queen of Clubs ", which featured uncredited vocals by McCrae, was a hit in the UK, peaking at # 7, and they went on tour there in 1975.

McCrae worked on his Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto in 1892 – 93.

Among his papers in the John McCrae House in Guelph is a letter he wrote on 18 July 1893 to Laura Kains while he trained as an artilleryman at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario.

McCrae served in the artillery during the Second Boer War, and upon his return was appointed professor of pathology at the University of Vermont, where he taught until 1911 ; he also taught at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.

From June 1, 1915 McCrae was ordered away from the artillery to set up No. 3 Canadian General Hospital at Dannes-Camiers near Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France.

On January 28, 1918, while still commanding No. 3 Canadian General Hospital ( McGill ) at Boulogne, McCrae died of pneumonia with " extensive pneumococcus meningitis ".

In 1906, George Gordon McCrae wrote two letters to a local schoolmaster at Dromana, Mr G. H.

His subject was his earliest recollections of an idyllic boyhood spent at Arthur's Seat Run, location of the historic McCrae Homestead on the coast of the southern shores of the Bay, part of Mornington Peninsula.

They purchased the pre-emptive right of 640 acres, which extended from the McCrae coast to the park boundary at the south end of Cook St.

British-Australian artist Georgiana McCrae produced many of her paintings at Cape Schanck.

Brother Dr. John McCrae ( Θ Ξ ' 94 ), a serviceman in the Canadian army, who like so many other men did not return at the close of conflict.

Robert Duvall patterned the role of Gus McCrae in the television series Lonesome Dove after Baugh, particularly his arm movements, after visiting him at his home in Texas in 1988.

McCrae died 15 August 1927 at Hawthorn in Melbourne, survived by four of his six children, including Dorothy Frances Perry, also an author.

At least four sets of researchers have worked independently for decades on this problem and have identified generally the same Big Five factors: Tupes & Cristal were first, followed by Goldberg at the Oregon Research Institute, Cattell at the University of Illinois, and Costa and McCrae at the National Institutes of Health.

McCrae was then brought back to end another period of failure at the Warden Street Showgrounds.

In 1891, Archibald delivered a paper entitled " Ancient Wreck at Warrnambool ," to the Royal Geographical Society, and this appears to mark the end of his active involvement. In 1910, having conducted further research, George Gordon McCrae also delivered a paper to the Geographical Society.

Another story of the poem's origin claimed that Helmer's funeral was actually held on the morning of May 2 after which McCrae wrote the poem in 20 minutes.

A pathetic letter is still in existence, in which Kendall tells McCrae that he could not go to Gordon's funeral because he was penniless.

McMurtry originally developed the tale in 1972 for a feature film entitled The Streets of Laredo ( a title later used for the sequel ), which would have been directed by Peter Bogdanovich and would have starred James Stewart as Augustus McCrae, John Wayne as W. F.

The sign for Gus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call's Hat Creek Cattle Company includes a Latin motto, " Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit ," which appears to be a reference to a proverb first attributed to Juvenal.

Sandra St. Victor ( The Family Stand ) recruited daughters of famous African American soul / blues icons – including Lalah Hathaway, Simone, Indira Khan, and Leah McCrae – together with " spiritual daughters " Joyce Kennedy, Caron Wheeler, and Nona, to form the group Daughters Of Soul, which has enjoyed much success, especially on the European tour circuit.

Kilgour and his sister are the great nephew and niece of John McCrae, the soldier and poet who wrote In Flanders Fields, and also the great nephew and niece of John Wentworth Russell, who painted the portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, which hangs in the House of Commons.

Dr Farquhar McCrae, a wealthy surgeon, purchased 600 acres ( 2. 4 km² ) in the area which he called Moreland.

But Brother McCrae bequeathed to his fraternity more than even his worthy life, but also a poem which has been preserved in great honor as both a historical and literary work: “ In Flanders Fields .” The words are a testament to the heroic spirit in man and are treasured still by the brethren of Zeta Psi as the hallowed words of a brother whose time long ago passed.

TK Records is closely associated with soul / R & B and the early rise of disco music, being the label on which the second bona fide disco song ( after The Hues Corporation's " Rock The Boat ") to reach # 1 on the pop music charts was released, " Rock Your Baby " by George McCrae in 1974.

Recently a new shopping center called McCrae Plaza opened and it included a Bilo Supermarket, which later became a Coles Supermarket.

He composed and conducted music for the Hugh McCrae play The Ship of Heaven, which was produced by the Independent Theatre in 1933.

McCrae later bought land near Hornsby and when the railway station opened in 1895 he suggested the name Waitara, which was formally adopted.

It was thus decided to build a new high school in Barrhaven, which became John McCrae Secondary School.

A third claim, by Morrison, was that McCrae worked on the poem as time allowed between the times wounded arrived for medical attention.

The red poppies that McCrae referred to had been associated with war since the Napoleonic Wars when a writer of that time first noted how the poppies grew over the graves of soldiers.

Designer Duncan McCrae managed to include the 1956 Clipper tail lights for one last time, this time in a fin, and under a canted fin.

Turner was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is the great-niece of John McCrae, author of the poem In Flanders Fields, and the sister of long time Alberta Member of Parliament David Kilgour.

During his time as Health Minister, McCrae made the controversial decision to shut down the emergency rooms in Winnipeg's community hospitals in favour of more centralized E. R.

Hodgson defeated McCrae for a third time in the 1999 provincial election, this time in the redistributed riding of Haliburton — Victoria — Brock.

He becomes increasingly attached to Teresa, Maria's blind daughter, demonstrating for the first time an attachment to anyone besides Gus McCrae.