Beyond the Ridge / Par-delà la Crête
Beyond the Ridge, a series of conversations in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada, brings together Vimy Foundation program alumni and expert academics to examine knowledge of the First World War and how it relates to the Canadian experience today. // Présentée en partenariat avec l’Office national du film du Canada, Par-delà la Crête est une série de conversations qui rassemble des participant-e-s aux programmes de la Fondation Vimy et des expert-e-s dont les connaissances de la Première Guerre mondiale permettent d’aborder l’expérience canadienne sous un jour inédit.
Beyond the Ridge / Par-delà la Crête
Punjab's Brothers-in-arms in Flanders Fields
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Vimy Foundation
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Season 2
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Episode 4
In this episode, we learn, with Steven Purewal, about how the Punjab's Lahore Division came to fight alongside Canadian troops in Canada's "baptism of fire" at Ypres in April 1915. Ultimately more than 74,000 South Asians were killed across the various theatres of war in First World War. We also learn about the Treaty of Versailles with Olive Tao, BVP 2020 recipient.
Host: Melanie Ng
Guests: Olive Tao & Steven Purewal
Sound artist: Sylvain Bellemare
Sound editor: Guillaume Bouchard Labonté
Directors: Melanie Ng, Guillaume Bouchard Labonté