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Vimy Ridge Memorial in Woodstock

Saturday, 8 April 2017 07:17

Woodstock citizens will gather at the cenotaph tomorrow morning in order to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

WOODSTOCK - Canadians everywhere will be commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

The Woodstock Museum has an excellent display chronicling the local heroes who fought in the battle 100 years ago in April 1917.

On Sunday they will be marching from the library to the cenotaph at 10:30am for a Remembrance Day type ceremony at 11am.

Curator of the Woodstock Museum Karen Houston tells Heart FM this was the first Canadian led battle and our boys were able to take down Vimy Ridge, something our allies had been trying to do for years.

"It actually was successful and they actually had taken a German position. It was over the course of 3-4 days."

Although we won the battle, Houston says the win did come with a price.

"You're talking about roughly 15,000 Canadians in one place fighting this battle. At the end of it almost 3,600 of them are dead and you're talking about a country that had maybe 8 million people in it. This is going to have a HUGE impact on our psyche."

There were over 10,000 Canadian casualties.

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