Parks Canada - Teachers' Corner - The Price We Paid for Nationhood: Beaumont-Hamel and Vimy Ridge

The battlefields and monuments of Vimy Ridge and Beaumont-Hamel, both located in France, were officially declared National Historic Sites of Canada on April 9, 1997.

Teachers' Guide

The Price We Paid for Nationhood: Beaumont-Hamel and Vimy Ridge

HTML Format | PDF Format (89 pages, 2.9 MB)

 

MATERIALS
(Support Documents / Handouts / Images):

Introduction Talking Point: A Just War? Tool for Evaluating Student Presentations Discussion Questions Propaganda WWI Posters Death Sentences [OHP] News Release Theory Statistics I [OHP] Statistics II [OHP] WWI Strategy Newspaper Reports Newspaper Reporting Worksheet Practise Somme: The Plan (Keegan) Haig's Journal [OHP] Haig's Telegram [OHP] Somme: The Outcome (Keegan) Beaumont-Hamel Statistics [OHP] Canadian Innovations [OHP] Impacts: Assessing the Outcome Canada and the Great War: Assessing the Outcome Appendix Excerpt from Pierre Berton's Vimy Resource List

Note: To read the PDF version you need Adobe Acrobat Reader on your system.

If the Adobe download site is not accessible to you, you can download Acrobat Reader from an accessible page.

If you choose not to use Acrobat Reader you can have the PDF file converted to HTML or ASCII text by using one of the conversion services offered by Adobe.