Just before dawn on April 9, 1917, Lieutenant Claude Williams lay in a muddy trench in northern France, cold and shivering and ready for battle. During the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917, Canadians ...
Photo used with permission from Carol Hughes On Feb. 15, at the Renaissance Active Living Centre in Elliot Lake, MP Carol Hughes presented Richard Wayne Golden of Massey with a King Charles III ...
Later he was Commander of the Canadian Corps which distinguished itself at the Somme and Thiepval Ridge. Its greatest feat was the capture in 1917 of Vimy Ridge. In 1919 he was created Baron Byng of ...
When Jim MacDonald makes his pilgrimage to Vimy Ridge on Sunday, he will be guided by a 100-year-old map, which is stained with mud from the First World War battlefield, and now sits carefully ...