Some of Canada’s most significant, sacred ground isn’t in Canada at all, but a new film from Royal Roads Professor Geoffrey Bird takes us there. Ways We Remember War is a 70-minute documentary focusing on the 2nd Battle of Ypres, the first involvement of Canadian troops in the First World War. “Those 1600 men advanced across this field at night and into this wood that was held by the Germans. By the next morning,g about 1200 of those 1600 were either killed or wounded,” says Bird. “That was Canada’s first experience in the war.” Bird says the impact of the casualties was acute on Vancouver Island since the first wave of troops wave of troops was based in Esquimalt. What we know today as t
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