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    The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed during the...
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    kilometers (2.4 mi) east of Vimy is the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the Canadian soldiers who were killed during...
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    portion of the former battleground serves as a memorial park and site of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Vimy Ridge is an escarpment 8 km (5.0 mi) northeast...
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    site is one of only two National Historic Sites of Canada located outside Canada; the other is the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Both sites are administered...
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    vicinity where the Battle of Vimy Ridge took place. A similar memorial was installed in June of 2024 at the National War Memorial in St. John's, Newfoundland...
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    alongside the Maple Leaf flag at numerous war memorials, including the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. It is also used by veterans' groups...
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    Walter Seymour Allward (category Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada))
    November 1874 – 24 April 1955) was a Canadian monumental sculptor best known for the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Featuring expressive classical figures...
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    battleground is preserved memorial park and site of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Canadian Corps commander Lieutenant-General Sir Julian Byng had...
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    by his brother, Edward, the previous king of Canada, when he dedicated the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France in 1936. Despite the joyous environment...
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    take place at the Canadian National War Memorial in Ottawa, the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France and other areas across Canada.[citation needed]...
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  • II on the face and the Vimy Ridge memorial on the back. The window displays the Peace Tower. On January 18, 2013, a Canadian botanist complained that...
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    Democratic Party. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, near Vimy, Pas-de-Calais, and the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, near Beaumont-Hamel, both...
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    2011. "Fast Facts - Canadian National Vimy Memorial - Veterans Affairs Canada". 20 February 2019. "Canadian National Vimy Memorial, France". The Great...
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  • of Canada, which released its first series of notes in 1935. The Bank of Canada has contracted the Canadian Bank Note Company to produce the Canadian notes...
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    Newfoundland Memorial and Canadian National Vimy Memorial). There are related federal designations for National Historic Events and National Historic Persons...
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  • visiting the Moro River Canadian War Cemetery in Italy. It is modelled on the Canada Bereft figure at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France. The $25...
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    0 mi) northwest of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the missing First World War Canadian soldiers with no known...
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    the dead of World War I situated on the grounds of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial Park near the French town of Neuville-Saint-Vaast. The cemetery...
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    building to Vimy House; with the former building demolished to make way for the National Gallery of Canada's new building. In 1990, the Canadian Museum of...
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    advice of Canadian ministers; King Edward VIII became the first to do so when in July 1936 he dedicated the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France...
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    had been decorated with 500 Canadian flags. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial to commemorate First World War Canadian dead and missing, presumed dead...
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    intact as memorials, however, including the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and the trench system at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. In other...
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    of Canadian military achievement during the Great War came during the Somme, Vimy, and Passchendaele battles and what later became known as "Canada's Hundred...
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    Robert Spall (category Canadian World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    lost and as such he is commemorated on the Canadian National Vimy Memorial with the over 11,000 other Canadian dead of the war killed in France but whose...
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    National Memorial Canada Bourlon Wood Memorial Canadian National Vimy Memorial Courcelette Memorial Dury Memorial Le Quesnel Memorial France / French &...
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    by his brother, Edward, the previous king of Canada, when he dedicated the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France in 1936. By-laws and practices governing...
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    Canadian war memorials are buildings, monuments, and statues that commemorate the armed actions in the territory encompassing modern Canada, the role...
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    were fought in the region. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, eight kilometres from Arras, commemorates the Battle of Vimy Ridge assault during the Battle...
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    kilometres (2.0 mi) south of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial dedicated to the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The Memorial was built on Hill 145, the highest...
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    The Vimy Memorial Bridge (previously the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge) is a bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 2014, it crosses the Rideau...
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