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An interactive look back at Canadian military history

Setting a legend in stone

A modernist sculptor captured Canada's conflicted feelings about Vimy and the war. Restorers had to cope with his troublesome innovations


Vimy 'affirmed our national identity'

PM hails First World War bloody assault as a coming-of-age moment for Canada


Vimy Ridge: The making of a myth

The victory at Vimy has become inseparable from the Canadian identity. But how it got that status is a murkier matter, and a more interesting one, which Michael Valpy explains

 

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