VIMY, France - The federal government has set aside $5 million to help in the construction of a permanent visitor centre at the Canadian war memorial in Vimy, France. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, ...

The Canadian Corps had achieved what the British and French troops previously couldn’t, marking the first time international headlines attributed a major First World War victory to Canada. A hundred ...

More than 20,000 Canadians have travelled to Europe to mark the centenary of one of the country's defining moments - the Battle of Vimy Ridge during World War One. About 3,600 Canadians died in the ...

"It was this really difficult objective to take that they'd been fighting over for the whole war... and then the Canadians did it really handily. The thing was, it was only supposed to be a ...

A few years ago, the Canadian musician Brendan McLeod and his band The Fugitives wrote a collection of songs inspired by the real-life experiences of soldiers who fought at the Battle of Vimy Ridge ...