Of the 100,000 Canadians who served in Vimy Ridge, 7,000 were injured and 3,598 paid the ultimate price. The Vimy Ridge National Historic Site of Canada is located in northern France, where the ...

PECI’s Penny the Panther (aka Flat Penny) gets settled into her hotel room in Prague. In commemoration of the 95th anniversary of the Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge (April 9-12, 1917), countylive.ca ...

The 44 th Battalion Monument stood on Vimy Ridge from 1917 to 1924 and it was moved to Winnipeg in 1926. Over time, the monument’s original concrete base and the tiles containing the men’s ...

1 / 11 The Vimy Ridge battle took place from April 9 to 12, 1917 and is remembered each year on April 9 at the memorial in France. The memorial is made of luminous Seget limestone from an ancient ...

As part of an Allied offensive, a major attack was planned for April in the area of Arras, France. In this attack, the Canadians would be tasked with capturing Vimy Ridge. Vimy Ridge is located in ...

Zone Rouge – or the “Red Zone” – is a chain of former battlefields across northeastern France that the government has cordoned off due to the many dangerous ordnance that remains from the First World ...

It’s taken a year of construction, but a group of young volunteers has finished creating a model of Vimy Ridge for the Saskatoon Museum of Military Artifacts. The model, focused specifically on ...

Keep the images of Terry Fox, Vimy and so on, but also introduce other cultures into the passport landscape. Replacing Canadian icons, which are recognized internationally, with birds and ...