Vimy Ridge: 360 with Peter Mansbridge

Explore Vimy Ridge 100 years after the historic First World War battle that helped define Canada as a nation.
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[@erics4497]

So proud to be marching for Vimy as a cadet today. Getting to be alongside veterans and officers who've served us, and pay our tributes.

[@terranaut3314]

Finally someone found a good use for 360 video.

[@rockynanach]

Thank you Mr. Peter Mansbridge for this eloquent piece and its significance of our country history fighting for Crown and Empire. God bless

[@ddiyS3]

Deep gratitude to all who died, they believed in a Country and a cause, perhaps misguided, certainly mislead, but their bravery and commitment lives on. Thank you CBC for reminding us.

[@rhonahall2311]

I was at Vimy Ridge last week (with our church which is based in the UK) but was unable to go down to the rear of the monument as the tv crew and security were starting to get everything in place. Thank you very much for posting.

[@golden36]

Thank You Mr. Mansbridge for this tribute , Vimy Ridge is a place that tugs on your emotions , I was at Vimy Ridge in 1979 for the Remberance Day Parade , O Coy , 3 RCR had the honour of representing Canadians on that very special day of Nov 11. Once again thank you from an old retired soldier.

[@localcontributor4412]

Vimy Ridge is spectacular victory for all and one of the best stories told Canada is almost 150 years old let's celebrate in peace! thanks to those soldiers who lost her life for us.

[@fergusdevins]

Thank you Peter, a wonderful tribute to those who fought for the freedom we enjoy today.

[@johnstewart3244]

Yesterday in a cemetery in the UK saw a Fallen soldiers headstone. He died in 1941 and i was surprised to read on the headstone that his brother also died in action some 12 years later in the Korean War. How sad was that!

[@janerogers1854]

Wars are about humans unable to resolve their differences calmly and thoughtfully. Vimy Ridge was a dreadful battle in a horrific war, a battle fought furiously and violently. All those young men who lost their lives,never to return home to Canada. Let all Canadians think of these men, not just on the anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge but very often. Without their sacrifice we would not be able to live a good life in Canadda.

[@rexelagapay7579]

Respect and Honor. Salute 🇨🇦

[@annesmall19]

Thank you Peter Mansbridge. Your excellence as usual. All hail guys all hail! Forever loved forever missed AND FOREVER GRATEFUL. REST IN GLORY! In GOD'S ETERNAL LIGHT!🇨🇦🙏❤

[@jayrhem9762]

Thank you so much Peter, coming from a notable respected educated Canadian, you are the voice of my Canada! Bless you!

[@Jay-vr9ir]

I visited Vimy Ridge a few years ago it is a typical Canadian Heritage place , it is so well organized. The thing I liked is as a Canadian tourist , you find very few people from The U.S.A. , Vimy is all Canadian.

[@josephforest7605]

Same here, a thing that we do not have to be a part of , with the U.S. .

[@trudeau528130]

Well done Peter and CBC

[@vi_cesario]

Gather, fellow Canadians, as we celebrate this day of history!

[@kazimierajaninacottam5352]

My father's older brother was killed at Vimy Ridge on May 9, 1915. He was private with the No. 2 Bayonne Polish Infantry Company, 1st Regiment,, 1st Moroccan Division of the French Foreign Region, in Berthonval (Pas-de-Calais) in the First Battle of Arras. The monument to the Division is located on the other side of the road opposite the Canadian Vimy Monument. My uncle is buried in the Ossuary Barbot of the French National Notre Dame de Lorette Military Cemetery at Ablain-Saint Nazare (Pas-de-Calais).

[@IronBard]

May he rest in peace.

[@eatonjask]

May 9, or April 9?

[@neilsmith5299]

Excellent view of the site.

[@danncomminc]

I've been to this emotional location. Still not over it. Thanks for a great look at this historic site.

[@dpreeper]

Hearing how young the men were was really reaching my heart, but that 17 year old broke it. I have a 17 year old boy; I just couldn't stomach losing him.

[@AD-Dom]

Seems the 360 video only works in app or on desktop. Very wonderful coverage.

[@skoobiedew7967]

Really miss him. Can't believe he's gone from CBC. :(

[@jimhoover9819]

Like many of those who have commented, I too had family at Vimy - both grandfathers. One was with the PPCLI, and waited in the Grange Tunnel overnight prior to entering the battle. The other grandfather commanded a Vickers Machine Gun crew, and was part of the "creeping barrage". This grandfather mentions in a letter written April 10, 1917, that in the trench they captured were found lots of German stuff, "so I guess we are in good shape for souvenirs". Apparently, the Brits fought for King and Country, and the Canucks fought for the souvenirs!! If you are in the area, be sure to go and visit. It is an amazing place - the memorial, the interpretive centre, the cemeteries, and the overall grounds.

[@Shinzon23]

this brought a tear to my eye.

[@FC-sd9oh]

Never forgotten 🍁

[@ryanbrownell5118]

This is really well done except some of the images that overlay the 360 video only appear in one eye when viewing with Google Cardboard. the content and the story is also very moving.

[@theOGdebb]

my great grandfather fought at Vimy. he was in the 4th Canadian mechanised rifle regiment. He came home, but lost an arm.

[@fuckoff187]

360 video Tripped me out a real senior moment

[@BigBeerus]

This is humbling in vr... So many died here.. So many of them younger than me.. Damn

[@ericswain70]

Respect to our Fallen.

[@uty.7093]

thanks this helped me

[@urchinsub]

You can't see the photo he refers to without using the arrow button in the top right. In fact I didn't use it at all until I wondered where the photo was :D

[@simonevilletard3893]

I've used this video a few times in my social studies classes. Thank you

[@Malcrom1967]

Peter Mansbridge, a great Canadian. What a great reporter. Sadly the CBC has lost its way after he retired.

[@hilarybenoit2926]

I have a Fraser of Lovat ancester who was in the Great War. And a Macdonald who died in Vimy Ridge. I also have 1 uncle who died in WW2 in a prison camp. And 1 who died at the end of the WW2 - he was ambassador to Rwanda. My great greatmothers husband was a bomber pilot in WW2.

[@loiseaunoir1021]

The monument itself is most impressive

[@garysmith5641]

changed since 1999 when i went it was shell cratered around the monument

[@lowspark68]

a haunting landscape where you feel the presence of the fallen...

[@daytrader1656]

The Canadian Charge of the Light Brigade. What happened to German Canadians who chose to fight against their fatherland? It's important to remember that German Canadians had to reassert their identity as a Canadian being willing to fight against the country that they had once come from.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

my paternal grandfather, John Burnham, 29th Battalion, CEF was there.

[@lucafarronato7361]

wow great

[@doug.a.2665]

...the video is a bit blurry ...was Peter messing with the cam buttons?

[@dpreeper]

Wasn't blurry for me...wonder why it was for you?

[@doug.a.2665]

..wasn't my eyes I'll tell you that.

[@Onlyshanonly]

RIP

[@beerrunner8153]

I have walked in a forest in Germany and seen head stones that said. German Soldier unknown. Only known to God. I can only imagine there was nothing left of the fallen.

[@williamkolina3988]

Semper Fi my Canadian brothers

[@larryrobinson6914]

Oh Canada's brave troopers

[@adotholland22]

r.i.p

[@davidphillips2259]

The was British soldiers their to and other countries

[@briancloud1733]

My great great grandpa's fought in ww ll and my great great great grandpa's to fought in wwl but one survived outta both so I never met them

[@7ohn.]

first

[@mattgerhard302]

the 360 is immensely distracting and takes away from both the story and the presentation. It really adds nothing.

[@ant-1382]

sorry but the video is very poor. All blurry and the so called three d. well it just doesn't work!!

[@ant-1382]

looked at it again. video good. watch it again.

[@alirezapq4214]

10 thousand is nothing compared to other tragedies

[@dpreeper]

The greater tragedy does not take away from this one, though.

[@alirezapq4214]

it does when the other tragedies are not even mentioned cause they are people of color

[@dpreeper]

There are several terrible things that have happened in our world, including the treatment of far too many minority groups, but I stand by my previous statement. One tragedy does not snuff out another.

[@philomath67]

What are you talking about? World War 1 was horrific for millions of people.

[@chewy999]

The photography is complete sheet

[@tylerboyer7824]

A video that is unnecessarily in 360

[@GFR711]

tyler boyer some people will never have a chance to visit.

[@tylerboyer7824]

That is true but a video without someone talking would be better for that in my honest opinion

[@danquarterman]

Propaganda. As we turn to outright fascism its clear they all died for nothing.

[@alexandrebourque-l4983]

They died because they were innocent, they died because they wanted to free people from occupation and because they were rightious people. You sir don't have no respect for the lives of fallen innocent man that did not know their future nor why they were going to war. Pushing your rhetoric and your agenda on a video that remembers their lives is of poor class and bad taste...

[@scotti.6433]

If it wasn't for these people who deserve respect of the highest order, parasitic pieces of excrement like you would not be here free to spew your vitriolic self-hate and abhorrent ignorance and lack of compassion for all of humanity.

[@aidanb2987]

wow you are just anti-Canadian garbage