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Walking Western Front Collection of articles about WWI from the Canadian view

The Toronto Star has published a collection of the various articles about Canada in WWI. I have posted a few of the articles and many have read them, enjoying the insight into "The Great War to End All Wars"

Read the articles at: http://www.thestar.com/news/walking_the ... front.html

Stories:
Seven things you didn't know about a WWI Commonwealth Cemetery
For 80 years, Pte. William Phillips lay in the wrong grave
How to (quietly) move 100,000 Canadian troops
When the Virgin falls, the war will end’
Chins tucked down, Newfoundland’s soldiers charged into blizzard of German fire
An underground world of quarries, tunnels and an 'English' garden
Walking the Western Front: Uncle Geoffrey's pilgrims
Time stands still in church that bears the scars of war
Eerie chalk caves at Maison Blanche are custodians of Canadian soldiers’ artistry
One soldier, three cemeteries and a mother who never stopped plotting
Some unsung heroes of the victory at Vimy
A map of the Western Front walk
At Vimy Ridge, unexpected reminders of home
'You must go to Vimy'
Walking the Western Front - from war hero to enemy alien and back again
‘That’s why we died’, to keep the buses running to La Bassée
Upside-down maps and death in the orchard
Canadian contingent’s first action glorious — or so the papers said
How the Mademoiselle found immortality
Walking the Western Front - 'There are always choices'
Walking the Western Front - Soccer pilgrims lay offerings at site of the (possible) 1914 Christmas game
The Australian who turned up after 91 years in the Belgian soil
‘Corporal Adolf Hitler was treated here’ reads panel at church in Messines after WWI
Walking the Western Front: A Sikh soldier lies at rest, far from homeland and adopted land
At Menin Gate, a nightly sign of hope amid the anger of names
Walking the Western Front: 'A noble type of good heroic womanhood'
Come into the garden and forget about the war
The strawberry machine, a celebrity niece and cows with white eyelashes
At stunning memorial near Ypres, 'sentinel' looms over Canadians killed in gas attacks
An eerie landscape at a German cemetery in Langemark
At a Passchendaele pig farm, a new Canadian target
Where John McCrae wrote 'In Flanders Fields'
Tourist attraction in Diksmuide, Belgium: the Trench of Death
Where the Western Front begins
Salisbury Plain: Mud, misery and even death for Canadians training for war
Canadian soldiers train for First World War in Valcartier, Quebec
First World War begins at home