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<\/a><\/p>\nWestmount, QC – 10 March 2015: \u00a009 April is “Vimy Ridge Day”<\/a> in Canada, and 2015 marks the 98th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge.<\/p>\n The RMR Foundation and Canada Company<\/a> are hosting a movie night <\/strong>on Thursday 09 April 2015<\/strong> at Cineplex Odeon Forum (Ste-Catherine\/Atwater)<\/a>.\u00a0 The aim of the event is to promote awareness of the battle of Vimy Ridge and educate Canadians as to its significance, and to support our framework for partnership with the Vimy Foundation<\/a>‘s project for\u00a0building a state of the art Education Centre to be unveiled in France on April 9, 2017 on the grounds adjacent to the Canadian National Vimy Memorial,<\/p>\n The Battle of Vimy Ridge was the first instance during the First World War when all four Canadian divisions fought as a unified formation. \u00a0The significance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge was not immediately recognized, but has certainly increased with time. Today, Canadians embrace the battle as a defining moment of our national identity.<\/p>\n The RMR was part of the first wave of attackers and secured their objectives on time:\u00a0“The Royal Montrealers advance moved like clockwork”<\/i>, according to Ted Barris’s book Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>albeit at the cost of 274 casualties to the Regiment. \u00a0The RMR was but one of the many regiments<\/strong><\/a> from all across Canada that fought in the battle, the first time that Canadians fought together as one Corps, and their story is typical of all Canadians who fought there.<\/p>\n Westmount, QC – 10 March 2015: \u00a009 April is “Vimy Ridge Day” in Canada, and 2015 marks the 98th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge. The RMR Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>The movie to be shown is the National Film Board’s “The Battle of Vimy Ridge”<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, \u00a0a film by John Bradshaw, narrated by Paul Gross and mixing archival footage with intensely realistic reenactments and the poignant letters of soldiers, The Battle of Vimy Ridge<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0dramatically reveals how innovative tactics combined with iron courage and heroic self-sacrifice to enable Canadian soldiers to transform a field of slaughter into a field of glory. Run time of the movie is 95 minutes.<\/p>\n\n
Buy tickets here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\n
Buy tickets here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
![Grande Soir\u00e9e Fondation Vimy 2015<\/a>\u00a0will be available on site.<\/li>\nConcession stand will be open for snacks.<\/li>\nParking is available inside the Forum or Alexis Nihon.<\/li>\nCineplex Odeon Forum is accessible by Metro Atwater (Green line).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBuy tickets here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\nThe Battle of Vimy Ridge was the first instance during the First World War when all four Canadian divisions fought as a unified formation. \u00a0The significance of the Battle of Vimy Ridge was not immediately recognized, but has certainly increased with time. Today, Canadians embrace the battle as a defining moment of our national identity.<\/p>\nThe RMR was part of the first wave of attackers and secured their objectives on time:\u00a0“The Royal Montrealers advance moved like clockwork”<\/i>, according to Ted Barris’s book Victory at Vimy: Canada Comes of Age<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>albeit at the cost of 274 casualties to the Regiment. \u00a0The RMR was but one of the many regiments<\/strong><\/a> from all across Canada that fought in the battle, the first time that Canadians fought together as one Corps, and their story is typical of all Canadians who fought there.<\/p>\nBuy tickets here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Westmount, QC – 10 March 2015: \u00a009 April is “Vimy Ridge Day” in Canada, and 2015 marks the 98th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge. The RMR Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/vimyfoundation.ca\/vimy2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/SponsorFrontPage.jpg\"){kind=link}