Vimy battle’s role in Canada’s nationhood is overblown

Canada’s decision not to join another British military mission in Turkey in 1922 was arguably a more significant formative event.

Mounties bow their heads in front of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France during an April 9, 2017 ceremony to mark the centenary of the First World War fight in which some 3,600 Canadians died. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

November 21, 2018

OTTAWA—Once again, this year's Remembrance Day ceremonies—now stretched into what is termed Remembrance Week—proved to be a lightning rod for the usual club of ‘death or glory’ historians to whinge to the media about how we don’t give enough gravitas to Canada’s Great War effort. “I...

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