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<\/p>\nThe conversations we start on Remembrance Day can and should span all year long.\u00a0Visitors to modern-day Europe can find ample reminders of a time when the continent was bitterly divided into Allied, Axis, Central and neutral powers. On this Remembrance Day, as a record number of Canadians prepare to visit Europe for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, we\u2019ve assembled a collection of must-see historic sites, monuments and museums to enhance your students\u2019 understanding of the greatest wars in our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
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Imperial War Museums<\/strong><\/span> Dieppe Canadian War Cemetery<\/strong><\/span> Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917<\/strong><\/span> Juno Beach Centre<\/strong><\/span> In Flanders Field Museum<\/strong><\/span> Tyne Cot National Cemetery<\/strong><\/span> National Liberation Museum<\/strong><\/span> Nazi Party Rally Grounds<\/strong><\/span> Dachau Memorial Site<\/strong><\/span> Cassino Memorial<\/strong><\/span> See more Canadian history experiences that you can share with your students on explorica.ca\/history<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The conversations we start on Remembrance Day can and should span all year long.\u00a0Visitors to modern-day Europe can find ample reminders of a time when the continent was bitterly divided into Allied, Axis, Central and neutral powers. On this Remembrance Day, as a record number of Canadians prepare to visit Europe for the 100th anniversary Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[331,332,209,378,382,238,58,60,386,59,128,172],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explorica-news","tag-canadian-history","tag-canadian-history-tours","tag-canadian-war-history","tag-commemorative-tours","tag-d-day","tag-educational-tours","tag-educational-travel","tag-explorica","tag-remembrance-day","tag-student-tours","tag-student-travel","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe IWM focuses on the war efforts of Britain and Commonwealth forces. The 5 unique branches are IWM London, IWM Duxford, IWM North in Manchester, HMS Belfast,\u00a0and Churchill War Rooms also in London.<\/p>\n
\nFallen Canadian soldiers were buried here by the Germans. The\u00a0headstones have been placed back-to-back in long double rows,\u00a0reflecting typical German burials but unlike any other Commonwealth war cemetery.<\/p>\n
\nLocated near Tyne Cot National Cemetery, this memorial commemorates the 100 days in which half a million casualties fell, only gaining eight kilometers of ground.<\/p>\n
\nThis is the only museum in France dedicated solely to Canada\u2019s extensive role in Operation Overlord. Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is located nearby.<\/p>\n
\nThe museum is housed in the rebuilt Cloth Hall of Ypres and presents the story of WWI in the West Flanders front region. The Menin Gate Memorial is located nearby.<\/p>\n
\nThe largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world stands near the farthest point in Belgium that was reached by Commonwealth forces before the final advance to victory.<\/p>\n
\nExperience the sights and sounds of the Netherlands\u2019 liberation on the famous battlegrounds of Operation Veritable, The Rhineland Offensive and Operation Market Garden.<\/p>\n
\nIntended to demonstrate National Socialist power to the world, this historic\u00a0area contains gigantic buildings where Nazi Party rallies were held.<\/p>\n
\nThe first Nazi\u00a0concentration camp in Germany, Dachau was originally intended for political prisoners but grew to include forced\u00a0labour, and eventually the imprisonment of anyone deemed a criminal.<\/p>\n
\nLocated within the Cassino War Cemetery, this memorial commemorates the 4,000 casualties of the 1944 advance on the German defenses of Rome, but whose Vimy Monument graves are unknown.<\/p>\n