Restoring the Vimy Memorial: An Act of Remembrance
February 22, 2007 |
Restoring the Vimy Memorial: An Act of Remembrance
Ottawa, Ontario, February 22, 2007 — The Canadian War Museum (CWM) is proud to present a lecture by Hélène Robichaud, Director of the Canadian Battlefield Memorials Restoration Project, Department of Veterans Affairs Canada, and Jacqueline Hucker, a consulting architectural historian, who will explore the history and the meaning of the Vimy Memorial, and explain why the monument deteriorated and how it was restored. Their presentation comes on the eve of the project’s completion and of the 90th anniversary of the taking of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps on April 9-12, 1917.WHAT: Hélène Robichaud and Jacqueline Hucker’s presentation on the restoration of the Vimy Memorial
WHERE: Barney Danson Theatre, Canadian War Museum
WHEN: Thursday, March 1 at 7 p.m. (in English, Q&A Session in French and English)
Admission to the Canadian War Museum is free every Thursday after 4 p.m.
About the Canadian War Museum
The Canadian War Museum is the national museum of military history. It attempts to help all Canadians better understand their country’s military history in its personal, national and international dimensions. The Museum emphasizes the human experience of war to explain the impact of organized human conflict on Canada and Canadians, and how, through war, conflict, and peace support operations, Canadians have affected, and have been affected by, the world around them. Special exhibitions and programs also explore non-Canadian and general themes related to the human experience of war and the subject of armed conflict, past and present.
Information (media):
Christina Selin
Senior Communications Officer
Canadian War Museum
Telephone: 819 776-8607
E-mail: christina.selin@warmuseum.ca.
Pierre Leduc
Media Relations Officer
Canadian War Museum
Phone: 819 776-8608
E-mail: pierre.leduc@warmuseum.ca.
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