In 1936, thousands of Canadian veterans and their families crossed the Atlantic on what became the largest peacetime armada in the country's history, sailing to France for the unveiling of the Vimy Ridge memorial. Historian Norm Christie narrates the story of that pilgrimage, tracing how the battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 became central to Canada's sense of itself as a nation separate from Britain, and how two decades later thousands of survivors returned to the site to mark it. The film draws on archival footage of the ocean liners loaded with veterans, the ceremonies at the newly built memorial designed by Walter Allward, and the atmosphere of a country still working through the losses of the First World War even as Europe drifted toward a second one. Christie's narration threads personal testimony and period film together to explain why this particular pilgrimage mattered enough to organize on such a scale, and what it reveals about Canadian identity in the interwar years.