Fighting in Flanders Exhibition

Canada played a pivotal role in Belgium during the First World War, and this story deserves to be shared with Canadians from coast to coast to coast. The Town of LaSalle is pleased to present the two-dimensional version of Fighting in Flanders – Gas. Mud. Memory., a travelling exhibition from the Canadian War Museum at the LaSalle Civic Centre, 5950 Malden Road, from Tuesday, September 8 to Saturday, November 14.

The exhibition is presented in a series of four panels using photographs, personal testimonials and reproductions of art. The exhibition covers the invasion of Belgium in 1914, the Battle of Ypres in 1915 and the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. The final panel highlights how memory of the First World War remains an integral part of life in Flanders.