Lincoln Kaye is Vancouver Observer's Senior Correspondent for Culture and Features. In half a century of reporting, he has served as a magazine correspondent in Asia, a food and travel writer, a music, film and theatre critic and a forest fire lookout.
As we’ve all learned in civics class (or, in my case, citizenship test-prep), the World War I Battle of Vimy Ridge still stands as the pinnacle of our country’s military glory. So doughty were the...