They say if you don’t know your history, you are doomed to repeat it — Huntsville High School students will get an opportunity to travel back in time.
A group of 36 students will embark on a trip of a lifetime scheduled for April 2025.
The students will be travelling to France, Belgium, and the Netherlands to visit key sites related to Canada’s involvement in both World Wars.
Students will be exploring the stories of Huntsville veterans, and then they’ll be travelling to Europe to actually experience that history!
WWI highlights will include Ypres, Belgium, where Canadians saw the first gas attack in 1915; “In Flanders Fields” author John McCrae’s field hospital; Passchendaele museum; Beaumont-Hamel memorial on the bloody Somme and the trenches; museum and memorial at Vimy Ridge (1917), France.
WWII history will include a visit to Juno Beach in Normandy and Canada’s D-Day landing site in 1944 through to the Netherlands, Anne Frank House (who tragically perished in 1945), Holocaust museum in Amsterdam, and several war cemeteries from both wars, locating the resting places of several of Huntsville’s fallen. Plus everything in between, including, of course, the jewel of Europe – Paris.
The trip will be led by veteran HHS history teachers Jeff Young, Pauline Webb, and Trevor Arndt.
A special community fundraising/educational dinner event will take place at the Huntsville Legion on the evening of Friday, February 21, 2025. Ticket sales and sponsor opportunities are coming soon!
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