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The Vimy Memorial displayed in a Canadian World War II recruitment poster. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial site has considerable sociocultural significance for Canada. The idea that Canada's national identity and nationhood were born out of the Battle of Vimy Ridge is an opinion that is widely repeated in military and general histories of ...
Walter Seymour Allward CMG RCA (18 November 1874 [1] – 24 April 1955) was a Canadian monumental sculptor best known for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial.Featuring expressive classical figures within modern compositions, Allward's monuments evoke themes of memory, sacrifice, and redemption. [1]
Vimy (/ ˈ v iː m i / or / ˈ v ɪ m i /; French pronunciation:) is a commune in the French department of Pas-de-Calais. [3] Located 3.8 kilometers (2.4 mi) west of Vimy is the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Canadian soldiers who were killed during the First World War.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. ... (9–15 May 1915) – French attack towards Vimy Ridge; Third Battle of Artois ... to shelter a statue of the ...
The $25 million project was to include a 24-metre statue of a bereft mother, her hands outstretched towards Europe and the Canada Bereft monument at the Vimy Memorial. [ 2 ] The monument site would have included an interpretive centre , a restaurant , and a souvenir shop , among other amenities.
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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (French: Tombe du Soldat Inconnu) is a tomb situated before the National War Memorial in Confederation Square, Ottawa, Ontario.The tomb is dedicated to Canadian service members, and holds the remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier who died in France during the First World War; selected from a Commonwealth War Grave near Vimy, in the vicinity where the ...
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