# Vimy Ridge
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The Battle of vimy ridge (9–12 April 1917) was part of the Battle of Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais department of France, during the First World War. The main combatants were the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in the First Army, against three divisions of the German 6th Army. The battle began the Battle of Arras and was the first attack of the Nivelle Offensive.
This Canadian soldier waited 109 years for his funeral Kaddish
When Canadian First World War soldier Pvt. Albert Detmold was killed by German shelling on Aug. 15, 1917, while digging communication trenches on the front lines in northern France, he could never have imagined that more than a century later, both a Chabad rabbi from Toronto and a Ukrainian Catholi…
The Opening Shot: 25/26 Season Review and Previews of the Events in Leeds and Winnipeg.
Rob Hall and Peter Sheehan launch The In-Off the Red Billiards Podcast with a look back at the 2025/26 season before previewing the Home Internationals, Northern Open, Vimy Ridge and PanAm Cup.
The Right Way To Retire A Canadian Flag Isn't What You Think
Most Canadians assume there is one correct way to retire a worn out flag, and Nick McCarthy says the real answer surprises almost everyone who hears it. He runs marketing and community outreach at Beechwood Cemetery, where a program most people have never heard of has quietly become the country's m…
36 - Drumfire: Artillery on the Western Front
What killed more First World War soldiers than the machine gun, the flamethrower, and the tank combined? Artillery.
Six in ten battlefield casualties in the First World War were caused by shellfire, according to the British Army's own medical statistics. It is the deadliest weapon of the war, and …
Episode 43 - The Last Night
On this episode of History Date Night, Justin and Jennie cover June 1st through 3rd. Theese are the days when Operation Dynamo comes to an end. They're going to review the costs of Operation Dynamo, because the casualty figures at sea this week are staggering, and review a firsthand account from th…
Questions and Answers Episode 59
In this latest Old Front Line Q&A, we tackle four fascinating questions that take us from the opening moments of the Battle of the Somme to the long legacy of the Western Front landscape.
We begin at Hawthorn Ridge on 1 July 1916 and ask whether the famous mine was detonated ten minutes early to he…
Questions and Answers Episode 61
In this Old Front Line Q&A, we explore four fascinating questions from the First World War, taking us from the Ypres Salient to German-occupied France and Belgium, and from wartime prisoners to the fate of battlefield cemeteries during the Second World War.
We begin in the Ypres Salient and the oft…
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Welcome to our 199th podcast and the penultimate episode of Season 8!
I'm in a nostalgic mood this evening, and we're looking at the Canadian masterpiece battle, the capture of Vimy Ridge, on Easter Monday, 1917.
Through meticulous planning, shared intelligence and pure bloody-mind…
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