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Welcome to the new Vimy section of our website.

We have dedicated this section to highlighting the Vimy Commemoration Project in which you will find preliminary information. At this time we have included a PowerPoint presentation which explains our intentions with this initiative. Within the presentation you will find some historical information of the battle of Vimy but more importantly ideas to guide you on this project and how you can get involved within your community.

You will find below, a series of website links to research information about the battle, other commemoration initiatives, historical information and more. We have also included the advertisement that is published in the November issue of Esprit de Corps – Canadian Military magazine, currently available at various news stands across the country.

Note that this site will be updated regularly as more material becomes available for you.

Within the following sites you will find various additional resources and links you can use for this project:

• The Vimy Foundation: www.vimyfoundation.ca
• The Royal Canadian Legion: www.legion.ca
• Encounters with Canada: www.ewcfrdc.ca
• Veterans Affairs: www.vac-acc.gc.ca
• For more specific information on the military history and the veteran’s unique experience, visit the section called Records and Collections using this link: http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=collections
• For information regarding the various Affiliated units and historical facts relating to them visit: http://regimentalrogue.com
• To match your affiliated unit to the numbered Battalion in WWI Canadian Expeditionary Force visit: http://regimentalrogue.com/cef_perpetuation/cef_infantry_1-50.htm
• To research individuals from your community who have fought in WWI visit: www.ancestry.ca
• The Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans in Canada: www.anavets.ca
• For additional information about Canada’s military heritage, you can visit: www.waramps.ca/military/home.html or the veterans site (above).
• Heritage Canada: www.heritagecanada.org
• The Letters and Images project: www.canadianletters.ca and www.youtube.com/CdnLetters
• Lest We Forget Project: Cenotaph Research: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/education/cenotaph/index-e.html
• Canadian Genealogy Centre: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-909-e.html
• You may order the following: “Vimy Ridge – The Soldiers’ Story” DVD available for purchase from www.mcnabbconnolly.ca (available in English only)
Item Code: Hist40_DVD_HU
”Vimy Ridge – The Soldiers’ Story” @ $19.96 + shipping handling and taxes = $36.68 CDA.

You may also forward your orders to info@mcnabbconnolly.ca. Please specify that you are ordering this items for the use of a cadet corps.

Read what is happening across Canada:

• Ontario – 613 Army Cadets are going to Vimy Ridge
• Ontario – Summary of Vimy Plans To Date
• Saskatchewan – Activities Planned in Saskatchewan
• Saskatchewan – More on Saskatchewan activities

You may find several historical clips about the Battle of Vimy Ridge on You Tube. The following are sample clips of the movie that will be viewed during the Remembrance events that are being organized in Regina Saskatchewan.

• Vimy Ridge: Heaven to Hell part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvjpoBoyrs
• Vimy Ridge: Heaven to Hell part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3UsybMZXk&feature=related
• Vimy Ridge: Heaven to Hell part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCnN6FFmQVU&feature=related

By searching You Tube using keywords relating to the Battle you will find many other interesting and educational clips.

The material provided within this section should only be used as guidelines or suggestions to assist and support you for this project. We will continue to provide further ideas, material and various resources for your research as they become available. The Army Cadet League does not intend to restrict your ideas or initiatives, instead our goal is to enhance your possibilities to make this Commemoration project come to life in 2011 and each year thereafter.

Your feedback is valuable to us; feel free to forward any ideas, suggestions, questions or concerns by e-mail to commsofficer@armycadetleague.ca.

Ariane Ste. Marie has travelled a fair bit through school and other groups but the young LaSalle woman has never felt quite as on-top-of-the-world as she feels right now about her next trip.

On April 27, the 19-year-old flies from Ottawa to Resolute Bay, the second northernmost civilian community in Canada, to join a 21-day Arctic expedition to the north magnetic pole.

A language student at CEGEP André Laurendeau, Ste. Marie was chosen in February to be part of an international expedition of seven young explorers, age 17 to 22, who will trek across a 150-kilometre stretch of ice and snow that few men and even fewer women have conquered.

The expedition is the latest voyage to be organized by Pangaea, a European based organization founded by South African explorer Mike Horn and dedicated to showing young people the impact humans are having on the planet.

The goal is to inspire them to make a difference for future generations, and what better place to start than the land of melting polar ice caps.

It all started in December when Ste. Marie read Conquèrant de l’impossible, a book written by Horn about one of his solo expeditions.

Captivated by the adventure he described – a circumnavigation of the globe – she went online to search for more and learned about the Pangaea expedition to the pole.

“Immediately, I thought, ‘hey, this is for me,’ ” she recounted, this week during an interview in the family’s LaSalle home. “I yelled, ‘Mom, I’m going to the north pole!’ ”

But “my mom just sort of laughed,” she added, recognizing how out-of-the world her statement must have sounded.

The north magnetic pole – although located south of the geographic north pole, the point where the Earth’s longitudinal lines converge – is still in the far reaches of the northern hemisphere.

Undeterred, she made a video applying to be part of the expedition and fired it off to Pangaea. The following month, she learned, while on a Spanish language exchange in Ecuador, that she had made the international shortlist.

In February, she and 15 other young people were flown all-expenses paid to Switzerland.

She said the 10-day selection camp was gruelling. In addition to first-aid rescue workshops and lectures on the environment, she said, it included scaling a glacier and walking 48 hours through forest with little rest. But she said she still wanted to be part of the expedition more than ever.

“I don’t know; I just don’t give up,” said Ste. Marie. “Even when my legs were burning, I just kept going.”

Her mother credits her stamina to the fact she was born at 27 weeks, a preemie weighing just over a pound.

“She had to fight for her life,” says Luce Ladouceur. “She’s used to fighting for everything. When we go for a family hike, she has to get to the top first.”

She said she has seen much of Canada as well as parts of the United States, Central America and England through family vacations, the Army Cadets, national youth program Katimavik, and international school exchanges.

Last summer, she hit the road, backpacking for six weeks through Europe with a friend.

But none of these trips, she said, come close to the excitement she feels about going to the north magnetic pole, the point in the northern hemisphere at which the Earth’s magnetic field points vertically downward.

“In two months, my life has totally changed,” she said. “It’s been quick.”

She is now busy training, following a six-week program designed for her by the expedition’s organizers to build her leg muscles and cardiovascular strength.

“To be chosen, I was so happy and surprised at the same time,” she said. “Just the opportunity to meet people who think like you and to have the same goals and ambitions was wonderful.”

Standing 5 feet, 2 inches and weighing 110 pounds “maybe,” you would be forgiven if you thought she wasn’t up to lugging a 110-pound sled for miles on end, her only refuge a tent at the end of the day. But you would be wrong.

Cathy Horn, an organizer of the Pangaea expedition, said Ste. Marie is “a great all-rounder, a team player,” winning traits that can’t be underrated.

It’s a given that the extreme adventure will change their lives, Horn said, but the hope of the organization is that it will also change the lives of others.

“We choose young people that are good communicators” and “passionate all-doers,” Horn said.

Upon their return and for years to come, they will be expected to share what they have seen. That’s why, she said, the expedition is underwritten by major corporations, including Mercedes-Benz.

“These young people are our ambassadors,” she said.

ccornacchia@montrealgazette.com

ILLUSTRATION:

PANGAEA EXPEDITIONS / LaSalle’s Ariane Ste Marie, 19, trains in Switzerland for an expedition to the north magnetic pole from April 27 to May 18.;

Mark Arendz Published on January 25th, 2011

Mark Arendz wins race in Finland

Mark Arendz of Springton captured his first IPC World Cup victory after winning the gold medal in a biathlon individual race Sunday in Vuokatti, Finland.

Arendz shot clean to post a winning time of 39 minutes, 35.9 seconds in a tight sprint to the wire with Norway’s Nils-Erik Ulset and Russia’s Oleg Balukhto.

Arernz had been fighting for the medals with them all week in the men’s standing division — one of the deepest on the IPC World Cup.

“That was amazing,” said Arendz. “My first World Cup victory and to shoot clean — nothing feels better.”

Ulset settled for the silver medal at 40:52.1, while Balukhto was third (41:56.1).

It was the third medal of the week for the 20-year-old Arendz.

The 2010 Paralympian won a silver and a bronze in the biathlon sprint and pursuit races respectively.

“I think the two podium finishes this week definitely gave me the confidence to know I deserve to be here with these guys,” said Arendz. “I woke up this morning and felt ready to go and said this is my day. I couldn’t be happier.”

From The Guardian, PEI, Article published on Jan 25th, 2011.