Graphic: How Canadians won the Battle of Vimy Ridge. On Easter Monday 1917, Canadian forces, fighting for the first time together, would capture most of the German positions by the afternoon.

As Canadians mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9, diaries kept by a young soldier from Toronto reveal the horror of war and preparations for a battle many see as a ...

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.

And to many then and today, Vimy truly made Canada a nation. Canada had gone to war in 1914 as a colony. When Britain was at war, Canada was automatically at war and subject to attack.

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.

Canadians fought in many of the bloodiest battles but Vimy became the touchstone of identity because it was seen as a Canadian victory. France ceded a 290-acre portion of Vimy Ridge for a beautiful ...

Vimy was an important Canadian victory, but as every visitor who has approached the wondrous Canadian National War Memorial on Hill 145 has realized, there was no cliff for the Canadians to scale ...

It's not news anymore that many Canadians are woefully ignorant of this country's history, but there's something disconcerting about a new poll that finds a lot of us know little about a pivotal ...

By this argument, none of the 112,000 Canadian soldiers who fought and died while serving in Canadian uniforms during the World War I and World War II were Canadian at all -- including those 3,598 ...