Her grandfather was decorated for gallantry at Vimy Ridge and went on to found the Canadian armored corps.
In the First World War they captured and then defended Vimy Ridge on the Western Front, albeit at a terrible cost in lives.
Vimy fully deserves the honour it carries in the national memory.
Yes, Vimy was the most tactically spectacular: One of the best-planned, best-executed Allied operations of the whole war.
But the exclusive attention to Vimy obscures other Canadian achievements even more deserving of honour.
Yesterday before daylight and afterwards I saw this ridge of Vimy all on fire with the light of great gun-fire.
It stands in a commanding position on Vimy Ridge, and can be seen for miles around.
They had been shelled all the way from Vimy and were so "all in" that they didn't care what happened.
The extreme left of the enemys attack on the Vimy Ridge rested on the left boundary of the new sector.
To give in detail our life in the Vimy sector would not make interesting reading as it was a quiet time.
