With Explorica, you can create your own perfect tour at the click of a button. Just add one of these exclusive new activities to your tour to experience Canadian history first-hand.
Stay in a château
Trade in your hotel for a more authentic experience, and stay in an authentic French-style château during your tour. Spend your evenings in one of these legendary French country palaces, interacting with local villages and experiencing French history between visits to Ypres, Somme and Normandy. Then take a break on the château’s sprawling grounds, with volleyball, football and other game facilities at your disposal.
Memorial Museum Passchendaele 1917
Housed in the historic Zonnebeke Château, this museum dedicated to the Battle of Passchendaele gives a comprehensive overview of World War I with a collection of historic artifacts, realistic dioramas, photos and video footage. Follow the timeline of the muddy battle that took so many Canadian lives throughout the museum’s emotionally provocative exhibits. Then, see the underground world of Commonwealth soldiers with recreations of the dugouts and trenches of World War I.
Essex Farm Cemetery
Visit the site where John McCrae penned “In Flanders’ Fields” to preserve the memory of that poppy-lined battlefield, and the pastoral peace shattered by bloodshed. Learn about the intensity of the Second Battle of Ypres, passing through the 1,199 war graves of the Commonwealth, 100 of unidentified soldiers. Then examine the countless bunkers remaining there, and imagine what it would have been like if you too had been in Flanders’ fields.
Discover more opportunities to experience Canadian history at explorica.ca/history.