349 14 15 16 17 18 The GreatWar participants, the Great Pilgrimage was forgotten. As the world plunged into war for the second time in twenty years, there was little time for looking back. Six years later, many, tired of war, looked to the future and the promise of peace rather than the old wars of the past. Sadly, few Canadians today know of that first Great Legion Pilgrimage but it was a remarkable part of our history and left a legacy upon which the current Royal Canadian Legion’s Pilgrimages of Remembrance are based. Mrs. Charlotte Wood of Winnipeg. The Vimy Medal was distributed to Canadian Pilgrims. Notes 1. Norm Christie, For Our Old Comrades, The Story and Ephemera of the Vimy Pilgrimage, 1936 (CEF Books, 2011), p.21. 2. Eric Brown and Tim Cook, The 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage in Canadian Military History, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2011, p.40. ❇
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