A special Vimy Ridge commemoration

And then there were none:

1) Vimy ceremonies salute last WW I vet (with video)

2) Generations strive to emulate First World War vets: PM (with video)

Vimy Ridge ceremonies underway at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, Friday, April 9, 2010.

3) Red Ensign to fly over Vimy ceremony in Ottawa

The Flag, [ca. 1918]. Canada's long-retired and historically controversial Red Ensign - the flag replaced in 1965 when the Maple Leaf was first raised across the country - will make an official encore appearance at Friday's national remembrance commemoration marking the anniversary of the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge.

Photo Credit: Archives of Ontario, Handout [scroll down here at the Archives; more images via this post]

4) End of an Era (Veterans Affairs Canada)

5) War Diaries - The Battle of Vimy Ridge (Library and Archives Canada)

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Vimy Ridge, April 9–12, 1917

Pack horses taking up ammunition to the guns of the 20th Battery Canadian Field Artillery, Neuville St. Vaast, April 1917.

Advancing through "No Man's Land," April 1917.

Gun emplacements, Farbus Wood, Vimy Ridge, 1919.

For the 90th anniversary:

Vimy Remembered and Rededicated