A fundraiser for the Wheat City’s military museum will be a celebration 80 years in the making, says Edd McArthur, curator of ...

Just before dawn on April 9, 1917, Lieutenant Claude Williams lay in a muddy trench in northern France, cold and shivering and ready for battle. During the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917, Canadians ...

Later he was Commander of the Canadian Corps which distinguished itself at the Somme and Thiepval Ridge. Its greatest feat was the capture in 1917 of Vimy Ridge. In 1919 he was created Baron Byng of ...

In 2009, it performed at an airshow in Clifden, Ireland to celebrate the 90th Anniversary of the Vimy's transatlantic flight, before retiring to Brooklands Museum for permanent display.

Vimy Ridge, in northeastern France ... a historian at the Canadian War Museum and author of 10 books, including his latest, Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. "Its front-line battalions are being ...