Vimy Ridge (British Columbia)
Vimy Ridge is a mountain ridge in east-central British Columbia, Canada. It has an area of 8 km2 and is a subrange of the Cariboo Mountains which in turn form part of the Columbia Mountains.
Vimy Ridge is named to commemorate the Battle of Vimy Ridge in World War I.
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Famous quotes containing the words vimy and/or ridge:
“You went to meet the shell’s embrace of fire
On Vimy Ridge; and when you fell that day
The war seemed over more for you than me,
But now for me than you the other way.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“The self-consciousness of Pine Ridge manifests itself at the village’s edge in such signs as “Drive Keerful,” “Don’t Hit Our Young ‘uns,” and “You-all Hurry Back”Mlocutions which nearly all Arkansas hill people use daily but would never dream of putting in print.”
—Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)