Despite passport polemic, Canada wasn’t ‘born’ at Vimy Ridge

Canada first cut the umbilical cord to Mother Britain during the Chanak crisis of September 1922, but there are no monuments to the wars we didn't fight.

To give them credit, the Vimy Foundation has been hugely successful in promoting the Vimy Ridge myth over the past two decades, writes Scott Taylor. Photograph courtesy of Andy Hay/Flickr

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

May 15, 2023

OTTAWA—When Global Affairs Canada unveiled its new passport design last week, it did not take the Colonel Blimp brigade long before they realized there is no longer an image of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France included within its pages. This omissio...

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