Harper's tour of the deeply moving site marks the closing leg of his week-long diplomatic mission.If you have a relative who enlisted in Canada to fight in WWI, go to WWI CEF Attestment Papers to see their enlistment papers.
Troops from all four Canadian divisions fought together for the first time at Vimy, and scored the first decisive Allied victory of the war there in 1917.
The Vimy Memorial, which took more than a decade to build, is currently in the midst of a major restoration, exactly 70 years after its dedication in July 1936. It's official re-dedication will take place next April.
Harper and his wife, Laureen, also stopped at a military graveyard in the village of Barlin, where Laureen cried over the headstone of her great uncle, James Edward Teskey of Okotoks, Alta.. He died at age 19 in the battle of Arras in June, 1917.
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