Canada Bereft, also known as Mother Canada, is part of the Vimy Ridge National Historic Site in Nord-Pas de Calais. It marks Canada’s involvement in the First World War and memorialises the 11,285 missing Canadian soldiers with no known graves. Their names appear on the monument.
Canada Bereft, also known as Mother Canada, is part of the Vimy Ridge National Historic Site in Nord-Pas de Calais. It marks Canada’s involvement in the First World War and memorialises the 11,285 missing Canadian soldiers with no known graves. Their names appear on the monument.
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Paris’s Modern Art Museum (Tokyo Palace) has a terrace facing the Eiffel Tower.
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A Bastille Day celebration at the “grande plage” in Biarritz on the Atlantic Coast. On the right, is the casino and in the background, the Hotel du Palais, which Napoleon III originally built for his wife, Empress Eugénie.
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An example of French gastronomy, by Chef Jacques Lameloise
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A field of cows in front of the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel.
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Ambassador Zeller likes to stroll around Place des Vosges in Paris.
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Canada Bereft, also known as Mother Canada, is part of the Vimy Ridge National Historic Site in Nord-Pas de Calais. It marks Canada’s involvement in the First World War and memorialises the 11,285 missing Canadian soldiers with no known graves. Their names appear on the monument.
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Beaumont-Hamel is the site of a devastating defeat for the Newfoundland regiment on July 1, 1916. Of the 780 soldiers who fought, only 110 were uninjured.
