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Members save on adult admissions to in flanders fields Museum; plus 20% on day tickets for the Amsterdam Canal Bus. AMARewards.ca Dina Might, a Second World War Martin B26-g Marauder aircraft on display at the american Utah Beach Museum in normandy, France. (utah beach museum) e. valere crt, (flanders fields) eka/maxx images, (vimy memorial) j moreno/maxx images (normandy beach) l. belither, (hofbräuhaus) bbmc tobias ranzinger FRanCE Skip the Chunnel and hop a ferry across the choppy English Channel to Caen, France, to experience the journey the way traversing troops would have (brittany-ferries.co.uk). Just north of Caen, at Courseulles-surMer, you'll find the famed D-Day beaches of omaha, Canada's First World War Vimy Memorial in France. Arromanches, Gold and Sword – as well as Juno, where the Canadian forces landed on June 6, 1944. There are dozens of museums in the area, but prioritize Juno Beach Centre, a Canadian museum presenting films and exhibits on Canada's war efforts, and tours of windswept Juno Beach park (junobeach.org). Northern France is dotted BElgIUM with First World War battle sites Make time for a stop in the Flemand memorials. Two of the most ish city of Ypres, site of some of moving are the 1916 Somme the First World War's bloodiest Battlefields, near Thiepval, battles. Today it's a charming, where a gruesome four-month canalled community whose trench battle played out, and streets are lined with medieval Vimy Ridge, farther north, architecture, as well as First which marks the spot where the World War-themed attractions. Canadian Corps stormed and In Flanders Fields Museum, defeated enemy troops between located in the turret-topped, circa 1304 Ypres Cloth Hall April 9 and 12, 1917. Today, it's (rebuilt after its First World War considered Canadian soil, and destruction), aims to expose the Canuck students give tours of consequences of war through the 30-metre-tall monument interactive terminals, audio that's inscribed with the names of 11,285 lost Canadian soldiers, clips and more. A white-gloved team of fireas well as the preserved battlebrigade buglers perform a reverfield, which is still marked with berating Last post Ceremony shell holes, craters and trenches daily at 8 p.m. under Menin (some restored to wartime realGate, an arched war memorial ism), machine-gun emplacements, listening posts and more. on the east side of town. Poppies grow wild in a "Flanders field" near Ypres, Belgium. Just north of Ypres, at Essex Farm Cemetery, Canadian Lt. Col. John McCrea wrote his world-famous poem, In Flanders Fields. Stop by and pay your respects to the 1,204 soldiers commemorated there. THE nETHERlandS Just across the border lies Arnhem, where in September 1944, British, Canadian and polish paratroopers fought, in vain, to secure several bridges on the rhine river as part of operation Market Garden (dramatized in the 1977 film A Bridge Too Far.) The National Liberation Museum 1944-1945, in the Dutch countryside, offers bicycle and bus tours of the battlefield grounds (evrijdingsmuseum.nl). Head northwest, around 100 km, to Amsterdam, a city the Nazis occupied between 1940 and 1945. The Dutch Resistance Museum, in the downtown plantage District, explores the central dilemma facing the population of the time: adapt, collaborate or resist. Next, head to the Anne Frank Museum, in the Amsterdam home where the young Jewish diarist and her family lived in hiding. The secret annex that concealed them is on display, along with family photos, letters and other artifacts (annefrank.org). W S p r i n g 2 0 14 | W e s t W o r l d a l b e r ta 19 p16_25_TravellerTypes.indd 19 14-01-10 3:41 PM