A new exhibit, "Final Victory: Local Perspectives on Canada's 100 Day Offensive", opens at the Billy Bishop Home and Museum.

"They had fought for four bloody years in fierce and costly battles such as 2nd Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70, and Passchendaele and withstood a determined German offensive in the spring of 1918. As the Allied Armies ramped up for further offensive action in the summer of 1918, the Canadian Corps was called upon to spearhead troops given the reputation they had earned fighting on the Western Front. Along with their Australian cousins they would lead the assault."

Beginning with a spectacular victory at Amiens in early August, the four Canadian divisions attached to the British Fourth Army continued to batter German defenses as they fought through Arras, the Drocourt–Queant Line, Canal du Nord, Cambrai and on to Mons, Belgium, when an armistice had finally been negotiated for the eleventh hour of November 11th.

Emily Jolliffe, Curator at Billy Bishop Home and Museum, invites you to examine the Final 100 Days of the First World War leading up to the signing of the Armistice on 11.11.1918 at 11am. Discover stories and sacrifices of some of Owen Sound's hometown boys who gave their lives for Victory. Their memory is a part of Owen Sound's inspiring legacy.

This informative and poignant exhibit, "Final Victory: Local Perspectives on Canada's 100 Day Offensive", opens to the public on Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 12 pm.

source: media release, Billy Bishop Home and Museum