The 100th Anniversary Of The Birth Of A Nation

Snapd Woodbridge
May 2017



On April 9th The Royal Canadian Legion, MacKenzie Branch 414 invited everyone to commemorate the centenary of The Battle of Vimy Ridge at the Woodbridge Cenotaph Wallace Street.

The Battle of Vimy Ridge was a military engagement fought primarily as part of the Battle of Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the Canadian Corps, of four divisions, against three divisions of the German Sixth Army. The battle, which took place from 9 to 12 April 1917, was part of the opening phase of the British-led Battle of Arras, a diversionary attack for the French Nivelle Offensive.