Over the Canadian Battlefields (Classic Reprint): Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919: Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda
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Explore the Canadian battlefields of France and Flanders through the eyes of a wartime traveler. This firsthand account invites you to connect with the places, people, and memories that shaped a nation’s story.
In these notes, a contemporary traveler moves along historic roads and ruined towns to recount sights from Ypres to Amiens and beyond. The book blends vivid field impressions with reflections on Canada’s wartime role, memory, and the idea of lasting battle shrines that could help future generations understand the cost and courage of the war.
Structured around key sites and moments, it offers a clear, accessible window into the Western Front as seen from a Canadian perspective: the human cost of destruction, the resilience of communities, and the possibilities for healing and national pride that followed the fighting.
- On-site observations of major battlefields and memorials, including shifts in landscape and the marks of war.
- Discussion of Canada’s military contributions and the broader Allied effort, with emphasis on sacrifice and moral meaning.
- Portraits of people, places, and the stories behind graves, ruins, and liberated towns.
- Considerations of how memorials, guides, and future pilgrimages could educate and inspire.
Ideal for readers interested in military history, national memory, and the Canadian experience of the Great War.
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Excerpt from Over the Canadian Battlefields: Notes of a Little Journey in France, in March, 1919
HE articles which go to make up this little book were written for news paper publication immediately fol lowing the journey over the battlefields, in France in March, 1919, which I had been enabled to make, through the courtesy and kindness of the Canadian Corps Comman der. They were published in April, 1919, in the Manitoba Free Press, Winnipeg; and are now republished at the request of many friends who have asked that they be made available in more permanent form. Though the articles reveal their journal istic origin alike in their form and in a certain evanescent timeliness, already part ly out of date it has not been considered ad~ visable, under the circumstances, to re-cast them into more permanent form. They are.
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