Each year the Royal Canadian Legion conducts the Poppy Campaign, along with thousands of our members who volunteer from coast to coast to coast, to raise funds in support of Veterans and their families. Poppies are distributed freely, but your generous donations are invaluable.
While the campaign officially runs from the last Friday in October to Remembrance Day, given that all of our orders for supplies come from Ottawa we try to make preparations for the campaign in advance. With this in mind, we are contacting you to see if you would be interested in participating in this year’s Poppy Campaign within your organization? For most groups, participation often takes the form of distributing poppies (provided by our branch) to those within your organization who would like them and collecting donations that can be used to support Veterans and their families in the Bay area.
To Participate In The Poppy Campaign
If you are interested in participating in this years campaign, we would ask the following information be sent to our Poppy Campaign Chair, Michael Barbour (mkbarbour-at-gmail.com):
- name and contact information for someone in your organization that will coordinate these efforts, and
- the number of poppies that you expect will be needed.
This information will allow us to order a sufficient number of poppies for our annual Poppy Campaign and to make arrangement with the contact person in your organization to ensure that they receive the poppies in advance of the campaign’s start date (officially this year it is 25 October 2023).
We thank you in advance for your consideration in participating in the Royal Canadian Legion’s annual Poppy Campaign.
Where To Locate a Poppy
At present, poppies are or will be available at the following locations:
- Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco – 580 California Street, 14th Floor, San Francisco, CA (please make appointment in advance)
- Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley – 213 Moses Hall #2308, Berkeley, CA
- Linden Tree Books – 265 State Street, Los Altos, CA
- San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club – 8450 Enterprise Way, Oakland, CA
Poppies will also be available at the following events:
- Eighth Annual Canadian Thanksgiving (06 October) – hosted by Digital Moose Lounge & Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley
- Canada’s Critical Moment: From Grand Strategy to Public Service and Governance Reform (04 November) – hosted by Canadian Studies Program, UC Berkeley
- Veterans Day Assembly (07 November) – hosted by the Liberty School District at their Community Hall in Petaluma
- Remembrance Day Service (08 November) – hosted by Branch 25 at Liberty Cemetery in Petaluma
- Veterans Day Ceremony (11 November) – hosted by Touro University California in the Grove on Mare Island (Vallejo)
- November Luncheon at the Basque Cultural Center on 599 Railroad Avenue in South San Francisco (12 November) – hosted by the Canadian Women’s Club of San Francisco Bay Area
Finally, the following organizations will also be supplying poppies at their events or to their employees:
- California Curling Supplies – contact Jay Diamond
- Google – contact Chris Jones
If you are unable to obtain a poppy from one of the above listed locations, please feel free to reach out Michael Barbour (Poppy Chair) at mkbarbour-at-gmail-dot-com.
Be sure to check out our PHOTO page to see images from each of these locations and events.
