Trailer - A Voyage of Discovery - 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
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Trailer - A Voyage of Discovery - 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
Transcript
we send a very warm welcome to the veterans in Canada who are
participating in this program. when it is your schools' turn to
speak please turn on your microphone St. John's is located in
the Avalon Peninsula people called the battle of Vimy Ridge the
birth of a nation for Canada as one soldier put it we went up
the ridge as Nova Scotians and Albertans and we came down as
Canadians. now our Canadian soldiers took this ridge in four
days, but we have to remember that we lost 3598 men.
Description
See the transformation of thirteen young Canadians from all across Canada as they travel through the cemeteries, battlefield sites and commemorative battlefield parks of France and Belgium as they begin to learn and truly understand the role Canadians played in the First World War. Present day video footage, mixed with archival history footage, narration and the reflections of the youth tell of the discoveries they made during their time overseas.
Meta Data
- Medium:
- Video
- Owner:
- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- December 4, 2011
- Duration:
- 0:50
- War, Conflict or Mission:
- First World War
- Date modified: