Ted Barris offers a unique telling of the famous WWI battle at Vimy Ridge, that, he says, gave birth to the country’s nationhood. At the April meeting of the Scarborough Historical Society, Barris will offer insights and images gleaned from some of the individual accounts – old interviews, memoirs, letters and diaries of the Canadian Corps troops – he assembled in the research/writing of his book “Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age, April 9-12, 1917.”
When: Tuesday, April 26, 2011.
Where: Bendale Library, Scarborough, Ont., 613-392-2774
Contact: Jan Howe, chair of program committee, janicelhowe@sympatico.ca
