Tag Archives: Vimy Ridge

This week’s crème de la crème — October 21, 2023

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsNew on Canadiana Heritage and The Financial Health of Canadian Genealogical Societies 2022 UPDATE by John Reid on Anglo-Celtic Connections. The Acadian Deportation: Tips for tracing ancestors forcibly removed from New … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — October 7, 2023

Posted on October 7, 2023 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blog postsScottish vaccination records by Chris Paton on Scottish GENES. Dutch Genealogy News for September 2023 by Yvette Hoitink on Dutch Genealogy. FamilySearch advances efforts to digitize Ukrainian archive records by Vera Miller … Continue reading →

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Funding for Vimy Foundation’s youth leadership commemorative and educational initiatives

Posted on March 31, 2023 by Gail Dever

The Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, yesterday announced funding of up to $241,000 for the Vimy Foundation over the next year to support their project, The Spirit of Vimy: Highlighting Youth Leadership and … Continue reading →

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Tim Cook’s ‘Vimy’ wins Dafoe Book Prize

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Gail Dever

Tim Cook, a historian at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and an adjunct research professor at Carleton University, has won the $10,000 J.W. Dafoe Book Prize for his book, Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. The prize is awarded … Continue reading →

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Newly colourized WWI photos added to Vimy Foundation website

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Gail Dever

The Vimy Foundation has posted two dozen colourized First World War photos on its website — the first in a series of 150 images. The foundation’s First World War in Colour project will eventually consist of 150 colourized images to … Continue reading →

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Military historian Tim Cook’s Vimy lecture on YouTube

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Gail Dever

If you haven’t had your fill of the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge — and I certainly haven’t — you will enjoy watching this YouTube video of military historian and author Tim Cook’s lecture, Why Vimy Matters. … Continue reading →

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How to discover if your ancestor fought at Vimy Ridge

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Gail Dever

In the days leading up to yesterday’s 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, I spent a good part of the time reading news reports and tweets and looking into my own ancestors’ military records to determine whether or … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — April 8, 2017

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Voyageurs performed superhuman feats of endurance by Bill Waiser on Bill Waiser. Religious Records Part 4- Quebec and Ontario by Candice McDonald on Finding Your Canadian Story. Railway lines and trains … Continue reading →

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Search this database for soldiers who died at Vimy

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Gail Dever

The Vimy Foundation has created a searchable online database of the soldiers who died in the Battle of Vimy Ridge, using Ancestry’s resources. More than 3,500 Canadian soldiers died in the battle on April 9, 1917. The National Post published … Continue reading →

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Battle of Vimy Ridge narrated by William Shatner

Posted on April 2, 2017 by Gail Dever

Next Sunday, April 9, will be the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. Canada’s victory at Vimy was a defining event for our country. To commemorate the anniversary, Legion Magazine and William Shatner tell the story of the First … Continue reading →

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