Vimy: The Battle and the Legend with Tim Cook
Hosted by Charlotte Gray
In Person Big Ideas History
Admission
Free
Sunday
Apr , 2017
30
6:30pm
Eastern
Christ Church Cathedral
414 Sparks St. • Ottawa
An emotive writer....He has a playwright's ear for knowing when to let his subjects speak for themselves.
Join us for an insightful conversation on the defining battle of the Great War, and how it came to signify and solidify Canada’s national identity.
Why does Vimy matter? How did a four-day battle at the midpoint of the Great War, a clash that had little strategic impact on the larger Allied war effort, become elevated to a national symbol of Canadian identity?
Tim Cook, Canada’s foremost military historian and a Charles Taylor Prize winner, examines the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the way the memory of it has evolved over 100 years.
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