Canada’s First & Leading Tour Operator for Canadian Battlefields Since 1986
Trusted as Canada’s longest-running battlefield tour operator, we have proudly escorted Canadian Veterans and their families for over 30 years—honouring their stories, their service, and the generations who follow in their footsteps.
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Small group tours with big stories to tell.
The stories we tell have an impact
Organized through strong partnerships in local communities both at home, and abroad, our tours are rich with opportunity, excitement, heartbreak, inside-information and insight.
Our stories unveil an understanding. These are the stories of our past travellers, the Veterans themselves. For 30 years, we have unraveled real mysteries, uncovering a heritage like no other, to reveal an awe inspiring history.
Every year we offer 5-8 programmes, with a heavy focus on subjects such as the Canadian involvement in the First and Second World Wars. We also provide customized programs for school groups, cadet groups, members of our Battlefield community and others.
We continue to play an active role in providing educational lectures to both the travel community and the general public to create awareness of our mission and why the Battlefield Tours is a vital experience for any Canadian traveller.
Proudly Serving Those Who Have Served for Us
Since 1986, the Battlefield Tours have been providing Canadian war veterans and their families with the opportunity to return to battlefields around the world.
We were fortunately wrong to think that visitors to the battlefields of Europe would dwindle after the memories of the war veterans and their presence on tour had faded. Today, the battlefields are being experienced by participants of all ages from many different walks of life. All with one thing in common – the desire to understand and pay tribute to the men and women who fought and paid the final sacrifice.
The focus today is to continue to honour the men and women that we had the honour of meeting over the past 30 years - by retracing their footsteps and sharing our priceless knowledge, resource and history with travellers like you, keen on understanding the battlefields that scar Europe, Great Britain, and beyond.
In May of 1995, just after the 50th Anniversary of Holland, we concluded a tour with Veterans and their families and wondered if it would be the last tour of it’s kind we would have the honour of leading. In the years leading up to the anniversary, our coaches were filled with the men and women who fought for our freedom and the freedom of our children. For some, it was the first time in decades to set foot on the battlefields of Europe since the end of the Second World War. For most, it was a final farewell to their comrades who were laid to rest thousands of miles from their homelands, and for all a reminder of the loss and sacrifices they endured.
We were fortunately wrong to think that visitors to the battlefields of Europe would dwindle after memories of the 50th Anniversary celebrations had faded. It’s been well over a decade later and The Battlefield Tours are still operating numerous prpgrams to Europe and beyond every year. The tours are being experienced by participants of all ages from many different walks of life. All with one thing in common – the desire to understand and pay tribute to the men and women who fought and paid the final sacrifice.
Our expertise has developed from the First and Second World Wars in Europe to the Crimean, Napoleonic and Boer War in South Africa as well as Canada’s involvement in southeast Asia. We have hosted Veterans returns to D-Day and Liberation of Holland as well as many school study groups and Regiments. Our tour managers are extremely knowledgeable in their fields of expertise and we consider ourselves very fortunate to have them on board.
Our vision is to continue to organize battlefield tours to educate future generations and retain a semblance of history as well as commemorate the monumental sacrifice given by the generations before us and those still with us. We will also continue to travel to destinations farther afield to discover and keep the traveling community open to better understand how war has affected our history.
Sincerely,
Ian Cowan CEO I Lead Program Director
& The Battlefield Tours Team
CONTACT US
The Battlefield Tours, a proud product of:
Your Canadian Tour Wholesaler
Direct: 416.844.4228
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Connection Custom Travel Inc.
www.connectiontours.ca
