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Salve,

  I'm always on the lookout for some vestige of the Classical
  Tradition in Canuckistani culture and I'm surprised I had never
  noticed this before (well, not really, for reasons which will
  become clear, hopefully). While previewing a video on the
  battle of Vimy Ridge in anticipation of drumming some
  appreciation of sacrifice into my charges tomorrow (Remembrance
  Day), there was shown images of the monument built at Vimy.
  What the monument looks like is probably not unfamiliar to
  educated Canadians (two big concretish spires etc.) but as it
  is almost always photographed from the front, I had never seen
  the obvious Classical influences in the figure known as "Canada
  Mourning her Dead". In the video, they showed a side view and
  it seems clear to me that the artist (Allard) was influenced by
  the well known 'Mourning Athena' ... I can't quite find the
  same view on the web, but perhaps you can get a sense of it
  from:

  http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/close/gi45/worldwar1/france/ww1_vimy.htm

  and

  http://adamjones.freeservers.com/nomans.htm

  and

  http://www.canadagoose.net/

  

dm

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