Route of
Honour/La Route
d’Honneur
Over the
past fifteen years, the Canadian Battlefields Foundation has created
a Route of Honour/La Route d’Honneur, literally a roadmap of heroic
liberation across Europe, the North Atlantic, Hong Kong and Burma.
Through the placement of memorials and descriptive plaques, and with
the aid of Prof. Terry Copp’s Battlefield Guide publications, the
prime battles fought by Canadian troops in Europe are clearly
identified across the face of the continent. Publications are also
linked to battle sites in the Far East, and to air and naval sites
in the North Atlantic. Every year competitively selected university
students and high school history teachers are awarded bursaries for
intensive touring and examination of Canadian battle sites. This
brings our total to some 300 alumni, including 23 professors, all of
whom are disseminating a new sense of pride of Canada in classrooms
and boardrooms across the nation.”
