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The Centennial of the Battle of Vimy Ridge Remember VIMY Sunday, April 9 Offices: 12:00 pm 200, 5110 - 50th Ave., Cold Lake, AB at the Cold Lake Legion T: 780.594.0299 And 4909 - 50th Ave., Bonnyville, AB T: 780.826.3312 www.gmwllp.ca Cold Lake Branch 211 Toll Free: 877.594.0299 Call 780-639-3579 Volume 50 Number 13 www.thecouriernewspaper.ca April 4, 2017 The Centennial of the Battle of Vimy Ridge Weather THE COURIER Tuesday Wednesday The Battle of Vimy High 9oC High 12oC Ridge stands as one of the Low -2oC Low 3oC most significant events in Chance of Flurries Sunny Canada’s history. Thursday Friday On Sunday, Canadians will gather at High 15oC High 10oC Low 2oC Low 3oC the Canadian National Chance of Showers Chance of Showers Vimy Memorial in France to commemorate the The weather is provided by The 4 Wing Meteorology Office centennial of the battle Local 8001 and reflect on what it has meant for Canada. Local News Vimy was the first time all four divisions of the Free E-Book of “Canada 2 Canadian Expeditionary and the Battle of Vimy Force fought together. Ridge” Now Available It was all the more significant because Martineau Disposal to 3 they fought under the Start This Spring command of a Canadian Health Promotion 9 general, Sir Arthur Currie. Cpl Arthur Currie to 12 Canada’s action to that point had been directed to Attend Vimy by British command. Centennial The victory at Vimy is a point of pride. British National and French troops had previously tried and failed Vimy Ridge and the 6-7 to take the ridge. Canada’s Birth of a Nation first united national effort RCAF Supports Vimy 8 carried the day. Flight Association Some say it was the birth of our identity as a nation. Sports/Fitness But it came at the cost of more than 3,500 Cold Lake Helps 9 Canadian lives. By the Edmonton Win Nationals end of the First World War, Work Hard, Recover 10 almost 61,000 Canadians Hard. Get the Most Out would be killed. In this special issue of Your Sleep of The Courier we pay tribute to the centennial of Weekly the Battle of Vimy Ridge. We hope you enjoy the Movies This Week 4 Vimy articles in today’s paper, and we hope you Classified Section 8 take a moment to reflect Padre 10 on this pivotal moment in MCpl Shilo Adamson, Canadian Forces Combat Camera Entertainment 11 Canadian history. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, Vimy, France. Page 2 The Courier News & Publishing Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Free E-book of “Canada and the Battle of Vimy Ridge” Now Available DND The e-book version of the work, which was draw attention to the new material exploring the originally authored by Brereton Greenhous and relationship between soldiers of the Canadian Corps The Directorate of History and Heritage at Dr. Stephen Harris, includes additional content by and the people of France among whom they lived the Department of National Defence (DND) and DND historian Jean Martin. This vivid recollection for many months,” said Dr. Stephen Harris, Chief the Canadian Armed Forces has released a free of the experiences of Canadian soldiers in France is Historian and Acting Director, Directorate of History e-book edition of Canada and the Battle of Vimy Ridge, available on the Directorate of History and Heritage and Heritage 9-12 April 1917, a 149-page resource about the historic website in both official languages. Canada and the Battle of Vimy Ridge, 9-12 April 1917 battle and those who fought in it. “We are happy to re-release this book, and to was first published in 1992. Une édition électronique gratuite de « Le Canada et la bataille de Vimy » rendue disponible MND La version électronique de l’ouvrage, dont et d’attirer l’attention des gens vers la nouvelle l’édition originale a été rédigée par MM. Brereton documentation qui explore les relations qui La Direction – Histoire et patrimoine Greenhous et Stephen Harris, présente du contenu existaient entre les soldats du Corps canadien et du ministère de la Défense nationale (MDN) et supplémentaire rédigé par l’historien du MDN les Français, auprès de qui ils ont vécu pendant de des Forces armées canadiennes (FAC) ont publié Jean Martin. Cette fresque de souvenirs vivants des nombreux mois, » a dit Stephen Harris, historien en une édition électronique gratuite de l’ouvrage expériences vécues par les soldats canadiens en chef et directeur par intérim de la Direction – Histoire intitulé Le Canada et la bataille de Vimy, 9-12 avril France peut être téléchargée à partir du site Web de et patrimoine 2017, une publication de158 pages portant sur la Direction – Histoire et patrimoine dans les deux La première édition de l’ouvrage intitulé Le cette bataille historique et sur ceux qui y ont langues officielles. Canada et la bataille de Vimy, 9 12 avril 1917 a été participé. « Nous sommes heureux de republier ce livre, publiée en 1992. JEff GAYE sidekick Patrick was town just north of Arras Second, Third and Fourth war dead whose names Vimy Ridge the definitive skinny with long dark – was a household name Canadian Divisions were are inscribed on the moment when Canada My first visit to greasy hair. They kind of in Canada. When I said positioned and how monument. Among the became a nation? It’s Vimy was with the Royal reminded me of a couple that across the country they advanced on their trees, the green forest unlikely that we became Canadian Artillery Band of cartoon mice. there are schools, parks, objectives. floor was pock-marked a self-confident, unified for the 70th anniversary The barmaid streets, hockey rinks, It was my turn to with thousands of shell people on the basis of the battle. The evening explained to them that Legion branches, even be astounded. Europe craters, big and small, of one event. But we before the parade I was she didn’t think I was a towns named for Vimy, has seen a lot of war from the Canadians’ would be very wrong to on my own in nearby local. When they asked, they were astounded. over the centuries, and devastating artillery underestimate the power Arras, and I stopped into I told them I was from I was looking forward this part of France has barrage. of that moment. a little tavern for a beer. Montreal, Canada, and to visiting the monument been the scene of many Aside from the It wasn’t the biggest The only other customers that I was there for the the next day. My new battles, each with its own spectacular Canadian or most significant battle were two local men who, Vimy anniversary. That friends insisted on taking complex history. As far National Vimy Memorial Canada would fight in at first, seemed to be changed everything. me to see it that night. as I knew, these two itself, it is the craters that futile, inglorious war, trying to pick a fight with They came and sat It was spectacular. guys were just a couple that stand out in my nor our greatest victory. me. beside me and bought me From the crest of the of tavern rats – they memory. The entire park But fighting together Stan was big, loud a drink. I told them that ridge, they pointed certainly didn’t come is landscaped with the for the first time, under and bombastic. His Vimy – the quaint little out where the First, across as academics. Yet undulations of century- Canadian command, the capture of Vimy Ridge old marks made by the Canadians forged a bond by the Canadians in 1917 impact of Canadian with each other and Spot a Typo? Coffee’s On Us. seemed as significant to artillery shells. A few steeled their reputation Spelling mistakes and typographical errors happen to the best of us. At The them as it is to us. are big enough to have in the world. Courier, though, we take pride in striving for an error-free paper. In the morning, the names, like the Montreal The cost was If you find a typo or a spelling error in The Courier, report it to thecourier@telus. band headed out to Crater and the Winnipeg enormous. 3,598 net. We’ll buy a coffee (or equivalent) at the CANEX Tim Hortons kiosk for the first perform the ceremony. Crater. Canadians were killed, person to report the error. If you’re the first to find a mistake in a headline, we’ll buy you a Tim Hortons Take 12 for you and your crew! When our bus turned Vimy Ridge is as another 7,000 wounded. Error reports (if any) from each Tuesday edition will be accepted until Friday of off the highway and into much about time as it We’ll never know what that week. Happy hunting! the park surrounding is about place. I felt the their efforts and talents the memorial, the band presence of ghosts – not might have contributed members – all these supernatural apparitions, to our young nation had jaded, wisecracking but the profound they not sacrificed life musicians who had an personal realization that and limb on Vimy Ridge. irreverent joke for every I was standing where my Lest We Forget. occasion, guys who had forefathers had been 70 been to Vimy half a dozen years before, and where or more times in their thousands of soldiers careers – fell silent in awe had fought, suffered and and respect. died. In the daylight I saw From the bus the Douai Plain stretched windows, we could see out for miles, and I was into a thick forest, made able to imagine the battle up of 11,285 trees planted scene that Stan and by the government of Patrick had described to France – one tree for each me the night before.
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