Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of fighting: they had seized the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front. HISTO… Catharine Parr Traill, Traill, Catharine Parrĭ.'One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. PERSONAL: Born November 18, 1939, in Ottawa Ontario, Canada daughter of Carl Edmund (an entomologis… Canada, LOCATION, SIZE, AND EXTENT Vincent Massey (1887–1967) already had a long record of service to his home country of Canada when he was appointed the country's fir… Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Atwood, Margaret 1939– (a farmer) an… Vincent Massey, Massey, Vincent PERSONAL: Born October 4, 1934, in Fairholme, Saskatchewan, Canada son of Abram J. Rudy Henry Wiebe, Wiebe, Rudy (Henry) 1934. Address: 21 Sackville St, Toronto, ON, Canada M5A 3E1. and contributor) Voices from the Sixties: Historic Headlines, 1967 The Smug Minority, 1968 The National Dream, 1970 The Last Spike, 1971 The Great Railway Illustrated, 1972 The Impossible Railway, 1972 Drifting Home, 1973 Hollywood's Canada, 1974 My Country, 1976 The Dionne Years, 1977 The Wild Frontier, 1978 The Invasion of Canada, 1980 Flames Across the Border, 1981 Why We Act Like Canadians, 1982 Klondike Quest, 1983 The Promised Land, 1984 Masquerade, 1985 Vimy, 1986 Starting Out, 1987 The Arctic Grail, 1988 The Great Depression, 1990 Niagara - A History of the Falls, 1992 Pierre Berton's Picture Book of Niagara Falls, 1993 Winter, 1994 My Times, Living with History 1947-1995, 1996 Farewell to the Twentieth Century, 1996 The Great Lakes, 1996. Publications: The Royal Family, 1954 The Golden Trail Stampede for Gold, 1955 The Mysterious North, 1956 Klondike, 1958 Klondike Fever, 1958 Just Add Water and Stir, 1959 Adventures of a Columnist, 1960 The New City, 1961 The Secret World of Og, 1961 Fast, Fast, Fast Relief, 1962 The Big Sell, 1963 The Comfortable Pew, 1965 My War with the Twentieth Century, 1965 Remember Yesterday, 1966 The Centennial Food Guide, 1966 The Cool, Crazy, Committed World of the Sixties, 1966 (ed.

and Columnist, The Toronto Star, 1948-62 Editorial Director, Canadian Centennial Library, 1965-70 Columnist, Toronto Star 1991-94. City Ed., Vancouver News Herald, 1940-41 Managing Ed., Maclean's, 1947-58 Associate Ed. Editorial Director, Natural Science of Canada Ltd. Career: Director, McClelland & Stewart Ltd. Genres: Children's fiction, History, Social commentary, Biography, Humor/Satire.

Vimy by Pierre Berton