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 ...

Lance-Cpl. Arthur Adamson, a miner at the Hollinger and one of the first men from the district to enlist was not so lucky. He ...

A Whitehorse student is among those chosen from across Canada to visit the Vimy Ridge memorial and learn more about the First ...

Located near the Belgian border, along a horrific line battle that extended from the English Channel for 444 miles until the Swiss border. This was a place where one million casualties were suffered ...

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 ...

Matthew Sears: By being more thoughtful about acts of commemoration in pondering who is and who is not represented, we stand a better chance of righting Canada’s wrongs This was not a day for ...

Over the four days of the battle, Vimy was a constant on the front page until the celebratory headline announced: CANADIANS CLEAR ENEMY FROM LAST POSTION ON RIDGE. The subhead was a nice ...

A two-hour documentary which recreates for the viewer one of the greatest battles in Canadian military history. The film was made to show that Canadian character at its best, forging an identity ...