Beyond the Wall – June 2011
Tour leader Ted Barris during a scouting trip through Prague, Czech Republic, in August 2010. Eastern Europe remains one of the least explored regions of the continent. Principally because of the Cold...
View ArticleReturn to Vimy – April 2012
Tour leader Ted Barris at the Vimy Memorial during the 2007 90th anniversary observances. It was at Vimy Ridge, on Easter Monday, April 9, 1917, that 49 battalions – nearly 100,000 Canadian troops –...
View ArticleIn the footsteps of Canadians who liberated Italy – May 2013
This Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery is located near Agira, Sicily. Laid to rest here are more than 400 Canadians who died during the liberation of the island in July/August of 1943. In the...
View Article70th Anniversary return to D-Day and Normandy
Join CBC broadcaster and bestselling author Ted Barris and attend the 70th anniversary of D-Day at JUNO Beach in Normandy, France. We are pleased to have Ted Barris lead a unique tour to this historic...
View ArticleHosting Holland Liberation Tour 2015
Citizens of Utrecht celebrate newfound freedom on May 5, 1944, with their British and Canadian liberators. They said 2010 would be the last hurrah. The parades, the observances, the remembrances would...
View ArticleSecret War Tour to Britain – June 4-14, 2016
Imperial War Museum We’re turning the clock back to the Second World War again this year. Only this time we’re returning to the centre of the war effort in Britain between 1939 and 1945. As we did back...
View ArticleVimy 100th Anniversary Tour – April 6-16, 2017
The Americans called them “an inspiration … for a generation.” The British described what they did as “the greatest victory of the war.” The French declared their achievement an “Easter gift.” What the...
View ArticleBeyond the Wall Tour – June 10-23, 2018
On Jan. 19, 1989, the head of the East German state exclaimed, “The Wall will be standing in 50 and even 100 years.” Ten months later, both he and the Berlin Wall were gone. For 40 years, concrete and...
View Article75th Anniversary D-Day Tour – May 31-June 12, 2019
Juno Beach Centre commemorative sculpture. They postponed it twice. They kept it secret from everyone. They mobilized 7,000 ships, 10,000 aircraft, and five divisions on the south shore of Britain....
View ArticleBomber Command Country Tour – Oct. 1-12, 2019
Facing the prospect that Hitler’s armies might cross the Channel and invade, in 1940, Britons braced for the Blitz, intense German bombing of the U.K. In this darkest hour, the Royal Air Force’s Arthur...
View ArticleDutch Liberation 75th Anniversary Tour – May 1-11, 2020
Join historian Ted Barris and be a part of history! It’s Merit’s Dutch Liberation Tour 2020, commemorating the 75th anniversary of Canada’s role in securing victory over Germany’s occupation army and...
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