There is no charge for this service which is available to any ex-serviceman or woman or dependent who can qualify for such assistance. After expenses, such as the cost of poppies, wreaths and other supplies are deducted, all remaining monies are placed in trust to be used on those purposes authorized in the General By-laws of The Royal Canadian Legion. The Legion's constitution stresses that poppy funds must be held in trust. They are subscribed to by the public. They are held in a bank account separate from that of the branch and cannot be used for any purpose other than those stipulated.
Campaign expenses are unusually low because most of the work is voluntary.
We suggest that you give according to the dictates of your conscience. When you give to the poppy campaign you remember the war dead and help the living and the dependents of those who have served our country. The poppy, an international symbol for those who died in war, also had international origins. A writer first made the connection between the poppy and battlefield deaths during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, remarking that fields that were barren before battle exploded with the blood-red flowers after the fighting ended. Prior to the First World War few poppies grew in Flanders.