Rare battlefield cross returns to Vimy

[@AliceHogg-x5z]

Wonderful memorial to fallen soldiers.

[@andrewkoenigsberger3517]

Great piece thank you

[@supra7324]

Remember they were all volonteers in this battle

[@KevinSills]

Most were young farmers sons like my grandfather; but, people in Quebec refused to go fight in the war until conscription made it mandatory.

[@stuart644]

@@KevinSills not necessarily, a lot of french canadians from quebec volunteered. However conscription made the draft legal nationwide, and nearly 50 000 canadians would be drafted.

[@KevinSills]

Canada did what the French, and British could not do over two years, and 26,000 lives lost. Canada invented the "Creeping Barrage", and through a coordinated effort they took Vimy Ridge in "one day"! My grandfather survived WWI, he was a dairy farmer, and I grew up just down the road from his farm on my parents dairy farm. I find it amazing that the French were able to reclaim all that land where those battles took place, there were literally "millions" of cannon shells used, the landscape was pitted and marked worse than the face of the moon. The land around the Vimy Ridge memorial was left as it was in WWI as a reminder of how bad it really was, the trenches left in place too; it was never cleared of unexploded ordnance, and is groomed now by a herd of sheep.

[@danquarterman]

Pushing that propaganda pretty hard CBC. nationalism only teaches you to hate people you never even met. As we move twords fascism, those very soldiers would have turned their guns on us, and rightfully so.

[@KevinSills]

Clearly you are too ignorant to understand why these men fought and died. My grandfather fought in WWI, I'll bet none of your family did.........you don't deserve to be here, go back to whatever country you and your family came from!