摘要：The centennial of the First World War is fast approaching. It will be a very important anniversary for Canada and the rest of the world, given that more than 10 million people, including 60,000 Canadian service members, died as a result of that war. Some parts of Europe were particularly hard hit: several countries were occupied or ravaged, in whole or in part, by years of fighting. More than 600,000 Canadians served in Europe during the First World War; that represents almost one-sixth of the approximately four million men in the Canadian population at the time. Those men fought in France and Belgium, but they also shared the lives of the people of those countries for four years. It was the first time in history that so many Canadians had stayed that long in a foreign country.
