The legacy of Vimy Ridge will live on at one Toronto school with the planting of an oak tree. A 1.5-metre sapling was planted Friday in front of Notre Dame High School to commemorate Canada’s 150th anniversary, the Battle of Vimy Ridge centennial anniversary, and the school’s 75th year. It’s a second generation oak tree, one of those grown through the Vimy Ridge Oak Tree Project. At the end of the Vimy battle, a Canadian soldier gathered a handful of acorns from a destroyed oak tree and later planted them on his Scarborough farm. Now, the second generation saplings, grown from acorns of the trees planted on the farm, are being repatriated to France, while others are being planted in Canadian communities as memorials.

Source: thestar June 02, 2017 16:07 UTC