1. Life in the Trenches
Canadian History

2. A Poet’s Perspective
"Hideous landscapes, vile noises....everything unnatural, broken, blastered; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug-outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth.“
"No Man's Land is pocketmarked like the body of foulest disease and its odour is the breath of cancer...No Man's Land under snow is like the face of the moon, chaotic, crater-ridden, uninhabitable, awful, the abode of madness."
Both quotes by British Poet Wilfred Owen.

3. Images of Trench Warfare
Canadians going ‘over the top’ at Vimy Ridge.

4. Images continued
Aerial view of trench warfare.

5. Images
A picture of ‘No Man’s Land’

6. Images
Soldiers sitting in water filled shell holes

7. Images
British outpost in Flanders

8. Images
Water filled trenches in Passchedaele, 1917

9. Images
Soldier caught up in barbed wire.

10. Images
Dead German soldiers in a trench. (Somme, 1916)

11. Images
More death…

12. Images
And still more….

13. Images
Water filled trenches led to trench foot.

14. Images
Soldiers de-lousing themselves with some free time.

15. Work Cited http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/ www.firstworldwar.com

16. Assignment
Read Charlie`s War: The Diary and Letters of a Canadian Corporeal.
Answer questions.