Barris returns to speak to Lindsay Legion Vimy dinner

Ted Barris MCs a Toronto Remembrance Day event, 2011.

At last year’s Vimy Dinner, held at Branch 67 of the Royal Canadian Legion in Lindsday, Ted Barris offered a unique telling of the famous WWI battle at Vimy Ridge. This year, back by popular demand, the author of 16 bestselling, non-fiction books addresses the Vimy dinner about the job of getting veterans to do what they pathologically cannot – talk. Based on his bestselling book, “Breaking the Silence: Veterans’ Untold Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan,” Barris offers some insights to a few of the nearly 4,000 interviews he’s done with Canadian veterans.

When: Wednesday, April 4, 2012.

Where: Branch 67, Royal Canadian Legion, Lindsay, Ont.

Contact: Harold Jessup,1st vice-president, harold.jessup@sympatico.ca


About Ted Barris

Ted Barris is an accomplished author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting stints on CBC Radio and regular contributions to the national press, he has authored 18 non-fiction books and served (for 18 years) as professor of journalism/broadcasting at Centennial College in Toronto. He has written a weekly column/webblog - The Barris Beat - for more than 30 years.

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