It's too late for 2011 to order
white poppies from us, order them from the Peace Pledge
Union in Britain, but you can still make
your own.
Another way to indicate your commitment to peace is to
wear a white dove from the White
Peace Dove Campaign , or a Remembrance
Day For All sticker.
Order poppies from Peace Poppies in Vancouver.
Next
year in 2012 we will once again distribute around
Vancouver, and do mail-order to other parts of Canada.To express interest in next year's campaign, send an email to <peacepoppies@shaw.ca> , or download this PDF order form .
Poppies may still be available at:
- People's Coop Bookstore on Commercial drive in Vancouver,
- Spartacus Books on East Hastings near Heatley in Vancouver,
- the 3rd floor of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC
- the Simon Fraser Student Society Copy
Centre in the Maggie Benston Centre, opposite
the Library.
In Québec, please
see Echec à la
Guerre .
Click on picture to
download a poppy poster (size A4) from the Peace Pledge
Union in PDF format.
Print
our 2-sided business-card sized (3.5"x2") leaflets on
8.5x11" cardstock (or pre-perforated cards, ex:
GeoGraphics or Avery #8371 or #5371) for 10 double-sided
cards on each sheet ; download
card PDF . Order poppies from the Peace Pledge Union in Britain
Please see their website www.whitepoppy.org.ukIn Fall 2009, shipping by air from London to Vancouver took about 5 business days; shipping by surface took 8 weeks. In 2010 air mail took 2 weeks, but "airsure" took 4 days.
Make your own white poppies
We
used to make our own by drawing
the
outline of a flower on a piece of card and sticking it to
a used button. If you have a printer that can print
photos on 4x6 inch glossy paper (or a 4x6 card), you can download a
ready-to-print picture in PDF format. Hand-drawn
poppies may be better, especially if the ink from your
printer is not waterproof. Many photo shops let you
upload an image in JPEG
format rather than PDF, and print for cheaper than a home
printer's ink and paper, and with more durable ink.
For example London Drugs in BC and Alberta (and a couple
in Saskatchewan and Manitoba) - try this
link to my White Poppies album . Note that
this is just an example, not an endorsement. 
More economically, download and print the image of 6 flowers (picture on right side). These are a bit smaller, closer to the red poppy size. Cut a piece of cloth adhesive tape (ex: duct tape) 1"x1/2", fold a ridge, then stick to the back of the flower. You can then stick a pin (straight or safety) through the ridge in the tape. Or see below picture of duct tape around safety pin.
Order Peace Doves
The White Peace Doves Campaign www.whitepeacedoves.org
offers white doves that can be pinned to your clothing.Tips on not losing a Poppy
The P.P.U. poppies have a wire instead of a pin. We suggest twisting it around a safety pin (around 1 inch) . To avoid the wire coming unglued from the heart of the poppy, pinch the centre securely between your fingers when bending the wire and pin back to the centre.
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Alternately
stick the pin to the cloth using 1x1/2 inch duct
tape. You might practice first on a hard
surface shaping the tape around the pin. |
The straight pins supplied by the Legion with red poppies seem to hold well on traditional wool suit jackets or winter coats, but on contemporary clothing they often fall off. Here are a few tips for keeping one in place:
- Slip a metal or plastic 'earring back' onto the end of the straight pin
- 'Stitch' the pin through the cloth more than once ___ __ ____ _
- Replace the straight pin with a 3/4" -1" safety pin
- Push the pin through the velcro on a jacket rather than the thinner nylon fabric. Be careful to not puncture the waterproof part of a jacket.
Contact
Website: www.members.shaw.ca/peacepoppiesEmail: <peacepoppies@shaw.ca>