Vimy Ridge

John Newell took part in the 1936 Pilgrimage to Vimy—and 81 years later will be there again with some rare mementos to share

The battle was a defining victory for the Canadian Corps, but not a significant setback to the German defence strategy

Canadians proved themselves, but the battle’s key planners and many staff-trained officers were British—and many British-born infantrymen helped take the ridge, too

In the weeks leading up to the attack on Vimy, the Canadian Corps commanders and engineers meticulously drilled their minute-by-minute plan

Canadians think of Vimy Ridge as the moment our nation came of age. It is less than that—and more, too.

Vimy was not our finest military hour. But it’s an entry point into World War One for many Canadians—and is worthy of a pilgrimage

Some 3,300 Canadians were taken prisoner during WWI. One Winnipeg soldier’s secret-code letters shed new light on their experiences.

In Ottawa, the occasion was marked by the return of soldiers to the War Memorial—the first time since Oct. 23

The battlefield still bears the scars left by the human genius for destruction

The sinking of the Lusitania is a well-known story but Larson turns the tale into an elegy on the contingency of war