The Great War Tour with Norm Christie

Episode 2

The Missing

Few Canadians know that 20,000 Canadian soldiers killed in the Great War are still missing. Some lie in unnamed graves others vanished on battlefields in France and Belgium. Norm Christie reveals why so many men disappeared. He solves a 90 year old mystery finding 44 men lost at the Battle of Vimy Ridge

Episode 3

Sacred Places

Historian Norm Christie visits the Western Front battlefields, where the real story of the war is in the cemeteries. Here he discovers how these faraway, exquisitely designed, and little-visited burial grounds, with their thousands of Canadian dead, are sacred places.

Episode 4

The Vimy Pilgrimage

Norm Christie recounts the extraordinary story of the largest peacetime armada in Canadian history - the spectacular 1936 Vimy pilgrimage to Europe - to honour the 60,000 dead of the Great War, and to unveil Canada's magnificent war memorial at Vimy Ridge.

Episode 5

The Wounded

The Great War marked a turning point in the treatment of battlefield wounds. Many techniques developed during that time are still used today. In this episode, Norm Christie takes viewers to the sites of frontline hospitals, casualty clearing stations and medical ships to tell the dramatic story of the Canadian Medical Corps in the First World War.

Episode 6

Your Granddads War

Randall Christie and his brother John served four years in the Great War and like most veterans rarely talked about their time in the trenches. 100 years later Norm Christie retraces his granddads war