ARRAS, France (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led commemorations on Sunday marking the centenary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in northern ...
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 ...
With hands clutching an orange rope, we descended into the Earth, down a lengthy set of stairs and ducking our heads to avoid the low ceiling made of stone. Now 40 feet below ground, we came to stand ...
100 years after the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a Canadian CC-177 transported seven World War One fighters to France. April, 1917. The Great War is in full swing and the British and Commonwealth forces are ...
While Canada’s national stereotype may be an overly polite and homely attitude to an almost comical degree, this certainly was not the case in World War I. In fact, throughout the Western Front, ...
Re: Scott Taylor’s Myths surrounding Vimy Ridge, April 9. The French had lost over 160,000 men in 1915 trying to get their ...