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Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps fro
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This is Part Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War.After nearly 4 years of stalemate (trench warfare) the Allied Forces planned to break through the German Hindenburg Line and then push the enemy from their defensive positions.You will follow the CEF as they take Amiens (Part I), Arras (Part II), Cambrai (Part III) and then the pursuit of the German Forces from Valenciennes to Mons (Part IV) in Belgium, the same place where the war began on August 4, 1914 on November 11, 1918. (Summary by Richard Laughton.)
Proof-Listeners: David Lawrence; Betty M.; Sarah Jennings.
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Transcribe →Finalist Readings from the 2017 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
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Transcribe →Author Zoe Whittall on The Best Kind of People
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Transcribe →Author Heather O'Neill on The Lonely Hearts Hotel
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Transcribe →Author Stacey Matson on Writing for Kids and the Berton House Writers’ Retreat
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Transcribe →Author Emma Donoghue on The Wonder
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Transcribe →Being a Literary Prize Juror with Lauren B. Davis, Trevor Ferguson, and Pasha Malla
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