2017, April the 4th, marks the 100 years of the battle of VIMY, which took place during the first World War. A Canadian circulation polymer banknote of 20 dollars face value, put in circulation in 2015, is illustrated by a drawing representing the canadian memorial of VIMY which commemorates the first military commitment in which the canadian army was implicated in 1917 on the western european battlefront, in France.

Four divisions were committed under the orders of general BYNG with like objective the catch of the peak of VIMY and “cote 145″, its summit. The French and English troops had failed on this objective during several months and that had cost more than 100,000 deaths. After a preparation...