On March 20, 2024 we held the screening of Ways We Remember War:  The Second Battle of Ypres and Canada’s Memory.  The 70 minute documentary was written, directed and produced by Dr. Geoffrey Bird, Professor, Royal Roads University.  The event was very well attended.

Canada’s first battle of the First World War occurred in a small wooded area in the middle of the night in a place called Kitcheners’ Wood.  In response to the first use of chlorine gas in warfare, the battle marked the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres.  Without film or photographs, Canada’s memory of the battle is shaped by art, memorials, and pilgrimage to the battlefield itself.  Working with the Canadian Scottish regiment, The Calgary Highlanders, residents of Flanders, historians, curators and landscape artists, the film explores the power of place and the significance of Flanders in shaping Canadian war remembrance.