04/10/2026
Today is the anniversary of the Battle at Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917. Let we forget. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18PBJsdHsG/
Today is Vimy Ridge Day, which commemorates the Battle of Vimy Ridge that began in the early morning hours of April 9, 1917, and was also Easter Sunday that year.
The battle was fought from April 9 to 12 and it is Canada’s most celebrated military victory and symbol of the birth of Canadian national pride. The battle took place on the Western Front, in northern France, with four divisions of the Canadian Corps, fighting together for the first time, they attacked the ridge and captured it from the German army. It was the largest territorial advance of any Allied force to that point in the war. More than 10,600 Canadians were killed and wounded in the battle.
The Vimy Ridge Memorial is located on that fateful ridge and honours the 11,285 Canadians killed in France throughout the war who have no known graves. The Government of Canada declared April 9th to be "Vimy Ridge Day" in 2003, to honour and remember the Battle of Vimy Ridge and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
We will remember them.
Lest we forget.
