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National
Battlefields Park | Vimy
Ridge | Dieppe Vimy Ridge is perhaps
Canada's greatest war memorial. IT towers above the
French country side on the top of the ridge where many
consider Canada achieved real nationhood while attacking
the German positions during the first world war when all
other allies had failed to take the position.
The site today offers the visitor the
spectacular memorial itself, several military cemeteries
and the preserved trench network that the Canadians and
Germans occupied during the first world war. The
memorial has a visitors centre which explains the
significance of the site. Many areas are still out of
bounds to the public with many bombs, shells and other
explosive devices unrecovered and just below the surface
of the shell pocked terrain. This is truly an great and
very emotional tribute to those that fought and died in
the great battle of Vimy Ridge.
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