Vimy Ridge Contribution To Canada

The country that first was not known as nothing, soon became the saviours of the first world war.In the starting of the first world war, Canada was not known as anything, if they were known as anything they were known as one of the British Colonies. Canada being in the first world war had made such a big impact on the people of Canada and Canada itself was changed. Canada had made many contributions during the first world war, the biggest contributions they made were during Vimy Ridge, Minorities at war and Passchendaele.

One of the most historically changed military contributions Canada had made was during Vimy Ridge. The battle of Vimy Ridge started at 5:30am on Easter Monday, April 9,1917. In the first wave of Canadians 15,000-20,000

Tens and thousands of Canadians came out and rushed to join the military. They were not worried of the fact that they have to serve the war for 4 years. In the battle of Western Front was the introduction to trench fighting. The trenches made it so difficult for the soldiers to fight. The trenches were the worst nightmares for the soldiers, it made them miserable. Soon there was a major attack that was planned in the area of Arras, France. In this attack, the Canadians were told to captivate Vimy Ridge. However, Germany had captured Vimy Ridge earlier in the war, therefore they had taken this advantage and made Vimy Ridge more powerful and stronger, they made the transformation into a strong defensive position and made into a complicated system of tunnels and trenches. The Canadians moved to the front lines across from Vimy Ridge. The battle of Vimy Ridge was the first time all four of the divisions of the Canadian Corps had fought together as one formation. The Canadians had spent their entire winter preparing the lines for the assault on Vimy Ridge. The Germans had raided positions so that they can gather information to use against Canada. During this there was over

Women came out and reached to help the men who were severely injured. Woman had showed the same passion as the men had towards the war. As soon as Britain has declared war, men and women came so that they can be part of this war. In starting there were only 5 Permanent Force nurses and 57 listed in reserve. But, by 1917, the Canadian Army Nursing Service had 2,300 nurses along with 233 reserves. The First World War shows such sacrifice and courage.The Canadian Nursing Sisters were woking amongst the number 1 Canadian General Hospital, Etaples which was bombed by the Germans. Three nursing sisters had died in June 1918. On the day of June 27, 1918, at the time of night. The Canadian Hospital ship was attacked by the germans, in this attack 234 people and 14 sisters had died. In France and Africa there were a lot of people that were swelled by a infection and other outbreaks of diseases such as the disease called the meningitis. Even though with this big of a disease affecting many people, this meant that the nurses had loads of work, this however did not slow down the Canadian Nursing Sisters to stop and put a lot of pressure on the nurses the Canadian Nursing Sisters gave their best and comforted te sick and injured. The black canadians were the ones who were eager to serve the war but due to some people who made it difficult for