Posts in Tag: vimy ridge
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Liberation Tours – My Choice For Canadian Military Tours
This is a link to the last in a series of twenty-seven articles I wrote describing a tour I took in April and May 2015 with Liberation Tours out of tiny Georgina. Ontario. The trip not only met the expectations of myself, my wife Alison and my sisters Anne and Kaye, but exceeded it by […]
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Vimy Ridge Trenches & Tunnels – Exploring the Battlefield
In my previous post I described the lead up to and reasons behind the Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge. Alison and I walked the battlefield proper and visited the Canadian National Vimy Monument, but that’s only half the story. In this post we’ll explore the Vimy Ridge trenches and tunnels in an effort to better understand […]
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Vimy Ridge – Why All Canadians Must Visit at Least Once
Liberation Tour 2015 has now completed two of the most important segments of the journey – the WWII sites at Normandy and the WWI sites at The Somme. On our last stop we visited the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing which frankly was shattering as we struggled to comprehend the enormity of the casualties suffered […]