Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age

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On the height of the First World War, on Easter Monday April 9, 1917, in early morning sleet, sixteen battalions of the Canadian Corps rose along a six-kilometre line of trenches in northern France against the occupying Germans. All four Canadian divisions advanced in a line in the back of a well-rehearsed creeping barrage of artillery fire. By nightfall, the Germans had suffered a big setback. The Ridge, which other Allied troops had assaulted prior to now and failed to take, was once firmly in Canadian hands. The Canadian Corps had achieved most likely the greatest lightning strike in Canadian military history. One Paris newspaper known as it ?Canada’s Easter gift to France.? Of the 40,000 Canadians who fought at Vimy, nearly 10,000 turned into casualties. Many in their names are engraved at the famous monument that now stands at the ridge to commemorate the battle. It was once the first time Canadians had fought as a distinct national army, and in many ways, it was once a coming of age for the nation. The a

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