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2017 Veterans' Week Poster

#CanadaRemembers

Veterans’ Week 2017, November 5 to 11

Remembering Passchendaele

Canadians have a proud history of bravely serving in the cause of peace and freedom over the years. A name from Canada’s First World War military heritage that still stirs emotions is “Passchendaele.” On a muddy battlefield in northwest Belgium, Canadians overcame almost unimaginable hardships to win an impressive victory in the fall of 1917.

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