Vimy was a triumphant battle, but it was hardly the 'birth of a nation' A century later, Canada is still identifying its WWI dead; The Battle of Vimy Ridge, as it happened; Vimy at 100: Myth vs ...

IT was a historic and bloody battle that saw more than 3,000 brave Canadian troops killed as they seized Vimy Ridge from the clutches of the Germans. On Easter Monday, 1917, more than 15,000 Canadi… ...

A detail from Canadian war artist Gyrth Russell’s The Crest of Vimy Ridge captures the site of a battle where some 3,598 Canadians lost their lives.

Tuesday, April 9th marks the 102nd anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Whenever Vimy Ridge is mentioned, it’s usually paired with the declaration that the 1917 battle was the “birth of a ...

Among the four Canadian divisions that attacked Vimy Ridge were Montreal's 13th, 14th, 24th, 42nd, 73rd and 87th infantry battalions and the 22nd (French-Canadian) Battalion.

When Prime Minister Stephen Harper stands in front of the stunning war memorial at Vimy Ridge on April 9, you can bet he will use the occasion to remind Canadians of the sacrifices currently being ...

One Vimy Ridge veteran, George Chisholm, blamed the trauma of the battle with causing him to drown his two young sons 10 years after the war.