When Jim MacDonald makes his pilgrimage to Vimy Ridge on Sunday, he will be guided by a 100-year-old map, which is stained with mud from the First World War battlefield, and now sits carefully ...

Re: Scott Taylor’s Myths surrounding Vimy Ridge, April 9. The French had lost over 160,000 men in 1915 trying to get their high ground back. They knew the Germans were mining France’s huge coal fields ...

Just before dawn on April 9, 1917, Lieutenant Claude Williams lay in a muddy trench in northern France, cold and shivering and ready for battle. During the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917, Canadians ...