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 ...
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 ...
The Vimy was the first aircraft to fly non-stop across the Atlantic.This flyable modern replica was built in 1994 to re-enact the type's three long distance flights of 1919-20. Its first flight ...
Earl Sorel wanted to let the sister of a fellow soldier know about her brother's bravery at Vimy Ridge. He described how soldier Gordon Rochford saved his life early in the bloody three-day battle.
Julian Hedworth George Byng, Viscount Byng of Vimy (1862-1935) has a stall plate in the Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. He is buried at Beaumont cum ...
Royals commemorate Vimy Ridge Thousands of Canadians mark Vimy's centenary 'I was named for a World War One battle' "How could Canada have lost 9,000 causalities, and we do not care enough to put ...
The Firehall Arts Centre is set to host the Vancouver premiere of Ridge, a production by Brendan McLeod and the rest of Canadian folk group the Fugitives. This performance revisits the Battle of Vimy ...