More news to come as the project progresses!
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The last hotel room.
10 Days Project: That's a wrap... for the moment
Children quickly locate the grave of Canadian Chaplin Reverend T.E. Mooney, killed 14th Sep. 1944.
10 Days project: Adegem Canadian War Cemetery
Three trips to Canada's European battlefields over the last five years has left me with several unique experiences each visit. While I have fond memories of private tours of locations most do not see, meeting veterans and becoming close with others on the tour, I have a new favourite moment.
Read MoreHuge costal gun remains at Cap Gris Nez
10 Days project: Onto Bruges!
As we advanced the timeline of First Canadian Army's progression through occupied Europe, the tour moved farther northward once again into Belgium.
Read More10 Days project: Dieppe Day
The study of Canada's roll in World War Two began in the Upper Normandy region of France, on the rocky shore of Dieppe. The Dieppe raid of August 19, 1942 was Canada's first action in the Second World War and a costly one. The decision to mount the ill fated raid is still a hotly contested one among historians and a question posed to the trip's students prior to their arrival in France.
Read More10 Days project: 100 days battles and onto Dieppe
Lets start this off by admitting I have a bit of a backlog here. Wireless internet or "WE FE" as people in France seem to refer to it, is in my experience crappy at best in hotel's. Coupled with growing exhaustion from a prolonged trip I really wasn't able to reliably get posts up like I would have preferred to.
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