Vimy Ridge

Greg:  Back in Winnipeg, Vimy Ridge Memorial Park in Wolseley offers a place to cool off in the summer splash pad, do flips on the swings, or even to kick soccer balls into garbage cans.  Given our close ties to Vimy, we set out to visit the 250 acres given by France to Canada in perpetuity.








Cynthia:  The monument is really a beautiful work of art.  The sheer size of it is really impressive and our pictures don't really do it justice.  Unlike some of the other historical war sites we had visited, this monument emphasizes the horrible price of war, the suffering of soldiers and mourners as well as (supposed) values of Canadians eg compassion for the helpless.  The visit was well worth it though I'm not sure how much our boys absorbed.  We also toured the trenches and tunnels neighbouring the monument.   Would advise a trip here for any Canadians touring northern France.

 


Max: I thought that the trenches were very interesting, before we visited the trenches i didn't know very much about them or about the war itself. I learned that the tunnels could be up to 1 km long.