Canada's finest hour

[Peter1469]

Canada's finest hour, it was WWI, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, April 1917.

"Ghosts of Vimy Ridge" (1931), a painting by Will Longstaff, portrays the spirits of servicemen of the Canadian Corps. The memorial on Vimy Ridge stands dramatically on the summit beneath which the shimmering spirits of Canadian soldiers gather in the silvery moonlight."


Vimy became a symbol for the sacrifice of the young Dominion. In 1922, the French government ceded to Canada in perpetuity Vimy Ridge, and the land surrounding it. The gleaming white marble and haunting sculptures of the Vimy Memorial, unveiled in 1936, stand as a terrible and poignant reminder of the more than sixty thousand Canadians who died serving their country during the First World War.

And the heroes:

Victoria Crosses

• Maj. Thain Wendell MacDowell, 9 April, 1917
• Pte. William Johnstone Milne, 9 April, 1917
• LSgt. Ellis Wellwood Sifton, 9 April, 1917
• Pte. John George Pattison, 10 April, 1917

[The Sage of Main Street]

Americans should never forget how the Great White North saved 6 of our hostages in Tehran, while the American Marines chickened out in front of teenage mob, which included future Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

[Peter1469]

Yes, and Canadian infantry were fighting hand to hand in Afghanistan when Americans were playing fobbits.