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On this Easter Monday, Canadians and their Queen will commemorate the 90th anniversary of one of the country's most enduring pieces of mythology — a minor battle for a French hill, transformed by alchemy into Canada's defining moment of nationhood.

Canadians, and only Canadians, call it the Battle of Vimy Ridge, begun on another Easter Monday, a grey, frigid April 9, 1917, at 5:30 a.m., and lasting four days.

In everyone else's historical lexicons, it was a limited tactical victory in the First World War's horrendous Battle of Arras, which the British and their allies lost.

It had a negligible effect on the war's outcome. The Canadians had equal casualties and more strategic successes in other battles, such as Amiens and Passchendaele. If French or British rather than Canadian troops had driven the German enemy off Vimy Ridge, history probably would have forgotten about it.


Canadians soliders examine a human skull found on the Vimy Ridge battlefield in 1917.......

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