In Northern France there sits a tiny piece of Canada. It was on this piece of land in April of 1917 that the Canadian Corps took Vimy Ridge. In gratitude, the French government granted the land in perpuitity to all Canadians. It was here that the Canadian National Vimy Memorial was built. A memorial to the 66,000 Canadians killed in the First World War, it also contains the names of
11,285 names of Canadian soldiers with no known graves (who were killed in France.)

To the valour of their
Countrymen in the Great War
And in memory of their sixty
Thousand dead this monument
Is raised by the people of Canada