VIMY, France – An ocean away from home, spilling their blood on a remote ridge in the muddied battlefields of northern France a century ago, many would argue that Canadians earned nationhood. Vimy ...
Bermuda’s vital contribution to a Canadian victory at the Battle of Vimy Ridge 100 years ago was commemorated on Sunday by island historian Dr Edward Harris. The Bermuda Militia Artillery played a key ...
Keeper said his dad, who shares the first name as him, fought at Vimy Ridge in 1917. He was one of the lucky ones who returned home. Canada lost 3,600 soldiers and more than 7,000 ...
A commentary by a professor who is a senior fellow with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy. Before Vimy Ridge, Canada sent men to Britain’s wars. After April 9, 1917, Canada fought its own.
PARIS – More than 20,000 people, most of them Canadians, attended a solemn ceremony Sunday to commemorate a World War I battle in northern France that remains indelibly etched on Canada's national ...
Cook, whose Shock Troops won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction, insightfully examines the 1917 battle of Vimy Ridge and evolving perceptions of it as Canadians prepare to commemorate ...
Canadian military historian and researcher Eric Edwards paints a harrowing image of the St. Thomas and Elgin County residents who joined in the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade’s First Great War advance ...
John Newell took part in the 1936 Pilgrimage to Vimy—and 81 years later will be there again with some rare mementos to share Canadians proved themselves, but the battle’s key planners and many ...