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CBF 2020 Battlefield tour poster and application is available

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Ken Charron

Now in its 26^th year, the Canadian Battlefields Foundation Study Tour is intended for Canadian university students who want to learn more about the role Canadians played in the liberation of Europe in the World Wars. This year’s tour, led by Professor Geoff Hayes (University of Waterloo), Professor Graham Broad (Kings College), and Professor Scott Sheffield (University of the Fraser Valley) will visit Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, and the Netherlands and will mark the 75^th anniversary of Victory in Europe and the Liberation of the Netherlands.

CBF 2019 Battlefield tour poster and application is OPEN!

Posted on January 9, 2019March 31, 2019 by Ken Charron

Now in its 25th year, the Canadian Battlefields Foundation Study Tour is intended for Canadian university students who want to learn more about the role Canadians played in the liberation of Europe in the World Wars. This year’s tour. Led by Professor Marc Milner (University of New Brunswick) and Jérémie LeBlanc (Saint Paul University) and […]

We are about to set off again!

Posted on May 23, 2017March 31, 2019 by Ken Charron

Once again the Canadian Battlefields Foundation Student Study Tour will be travelling to Europe in May and June 2017. Twelve deserving students from across Canada were selected for this amazing opportunity to study the battlefields important to Canada in the First and Second World Wars. Led by Dr. Geoff Hayes, from the University of Waterloo, David Patterson, and Dr, John Rickard (an alumnus of the very first CBF Tour in 1995), the group will visit sites in Belgium and France. Along the way they will see the Vimy Memorial in the centenary year of the battle and visit the newly unveiled monument at Hill 70. The students will be blogging to this site starting on 26 May and will blog each day until 11 June. Keep an eye out for the posts as the impressions these sites make on our young scholars is both moving and inspiring.

CBF 2017 Battlefield tour poster and application is OPEN!

Posted on January 17, 2017March 31, 2019 by Ken Charron

Now in its 23rd year, the Canadian Battlefields Foundation Study Tour is intended for Canadian university students who want to learn more about the role Canadians played in the liberation of Europe in the World Wars. This year’s tour, led by Professor Geoff Hayes (University of Waterloo) and Dr John Rickard will
visit Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Dieppe, the Normandy battlefields, and participate in ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of D-Day.

2017 CBF Tour Poster
2017 Student Application Form – Is live! Applications due March 3, 2017.

Author: Ken Charron