"At the arranged time, to the absolute second, suddenly, as dawn was breaking, every gun on the whole front opened up. The roar of the heavy ... artillery fire. The infantry marched behind, doing ...

While Canada’s national stereotype may be an overly polite and homely attitude to an almost comical degree, this certainly was not the case in World War I. In fact, throughout the Western Front, ...

There were more than eight million horses, donkeys and mules who served in WWI and 50,000 at Vimy Ridge. They were used to carry ammunition, supplies and pull artillery to support the Canadian attack.