Born in Blood, Born Canadian - April 9, 1917

On April 9, 1917, Canadian soldiers accomplished something extraordinary at Vimy Ridge, a tactical masterpiece that secured a position the British and French had bled to take for two years. But the story most of us know, that Canada was "born" on that ridge, is one of the most carefully constructed national myths of the modern world. Today we hold both truths at once: the genuine bravery of the men who fought and the political story assembled around them afterward, selectively, deliberately, at considerable cost to those it left out.