What we value
Our mission is to give all Canadian travellers the perspective and understanding of the incredible histories we share with the battlefields, showing how intrinsically connected we are in conflict. We believe that travelers should embark on a journey that is rich with knowledge & meaning. We believe this exploration should be rich in culture, locally sourced, and authentic. We urge a call to all Canadians to join us in experiencing the pilgrimage that is a Battlefield Tour.
Canadian Battlefield Travel since 1986...
Safety & Security
The Battlefield Tours works directly with trusted suppliers.
Expert Design
All itineraries are designed by our experienced team with the help host destinations and local communities.
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Pricing
All prices are listed as with option for air & single supplement. Pricing all includes all entrances, accommodation, and more (as listed in inclusions).
Flexibility
Our direct partnerships means you have the flexibility to add on an extension to your travels and more
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Travel Assistance
Special services and arrangements can be offered for any and all travellers who require mobile assistance. Special services can also be provided for Canadian Student & Military groups.
Custom Guides & Resource
Enjoy exploring information before your trip, with a custom 30+ pg. PDF info kit related to your journey explore some samples
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Complimentary Consultations
From the Maritimes to the West Coast, we encourage organizations, and schools, to delve into our history across the Battlefields. Let us show you what we can offer.
Custom Programs
For private groups, & special request extensions, or add-ons
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Why Choose Us?
We are the longest-running Canadian Tour Operator offering Battlefield Programs to date
With over 30 years of experience we provide you with a seamless travel program using trusted accommodation and restaurants that we personally know and love. As well, you're receiving reliable and insightful information from an experienced and knowledgeable source, gaining one of the most in-depth understandings of the areas you'll be exploring.
Since The same team that lead & organizes your tour today is the same full-time team that is leading you on the ground across Europe, Britain & Asia.
This means you will consistently be recieving the same information, from a reputable, trusted and reliable source. When you speak with our team, you are speaking with a weath of knowledgable and living history.
Following the footsteps of our fathers, The Battlefields has had the honour of leading our Canadian Veterans through the Battlefields if Europe.
Since our start in 1986, learning and sharing their legacy has been our primary focus. Today, we continue to share their stories, insights, perspectives and memories with our travellers. This means that when you travel with us, you have the remarkably rare opportunity to speak with living history, allowing you to gain first-hand knowledge about our incredible War Story. Traveling and exploring the Battlefields is undoubtedly a great experience however, truly understanding the individuals who fought upon them for our freedom and nation, is a powerful and invigorating moment for any Canadian.
Unique to mainstream tours, the Battlefield Tours are different:
This is real history.
This is not your average group tour. Our travels are seamless, our team has always been the same, our drivers carry a wealth of humour and knowledge, and our travellers are part of a strong and returning community. We take the road less travelled, we speak about the events you haven't heard about before, the places you haven't seen before, and set out to inspire and honour in ways you wouldn't have dreamt possible.
Europe repeat Travellers; 60% of our travellers are repeat Battlefield Travellers. 40% have been on more than two trips.
This means two things: First, ultimately that it is all about the people you travel with. On our tour you'll be welcomed by a group of friendly familiar faces carrying with them with a wealth of knowledge, enthusiasm, and some incredible stories you won't hear anywhere else. You travel with us and you're traveling with the Battlefield Community. Secondly it proves that we are consistently delivering an incredible experience, no matter where we go, no matter what our group size.
Every tour we offer is CUSTOMIZABLE, we believe in flexibility. We have the ability to cater your itinerary one-on-one. Each traveller will receive their own custom tour info, reference & map kit 30 Days before their departure.
Many travellers wish to add their Battlefield Tour on to an even greater adventure, when others need to cut it short. Some even like to extend their Battlefield adventure and hop on to the next program. Because we are a travel team first and foremost, with strong relationships to Europe, Britain, and South East Asia, we can easily organize and arrange outside travels for you to add on to your Battlefield Tour, making it easy for you to travel the way you need to travel.
There are still many strong, well-traveled, and incredible Canadian Veterans continuing to travel with us today.
Many of our repeat travellers are veterans and their families carrying with them incredible stories that they are willing to share. Many of our new travellers will be traveling with these incredible men and women who have seen the of effects war first hand. For you this means discovering a rare, yet incredible opportunity to hear these men's stories, ask them questions, and see your surroundings from their eyes. It most certainly is an incredible way to travel.
JUNO BEACH 80TH D DAY CEREMONY
Who tours with us?
Members of The Royal Canadian Legion
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Individuals & families
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Canadian Corporations - Incentive Programs
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Canadian Student & Education Groups
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Canadian Royal Military College
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The Historical Community
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Veterans & Members of the Battlefield Community
Canadian Travel Agents
Participants Roger Robichaud & Steeve Gravel of our Holland to Normandy Group were featured in CBC's tribute to the 80th Anniversary of D Day at Juno Beach June 6th 2024. You can view their interview with CBC corespondant Julia Wong at 53:20.
Our Values
Exploring
We are first and foremost dedicated to exploration. We operate primarily as a tour operator for Canadians, having created strong relationships with communities in Europe, Britain & South East Asia. We like the road less travelled. We believe in offering more at destinations Canadians may have been to many times before. We believe in authenticity. We believe in eating locally and staying in well matched accommodations booked directly by our own team. We believe in the usage of locally trusted and quality owned accommodation and restaurants with people we know and love.
Canadians may have been to the Battlefields, they may have been overseas, but they have never seen the world like this.
Honouring
Our primary goal is to continue to honour the communities we touch, and the histories that come with them. By continuing year after year to journey back to Europe with the Canadians we travel, we are representing our nation, truly showing that even our new generations are willing honor those who have fought so hard for our freedom. We are commemorating the sacrifices made and the impacts they have had across Europe. We are living proof that we will never forget the hardships our forefathers had to overcome for our freedom.
We encourage all Canadians, especially students and families of those who had fought for us, to travel with us and see first hand the history that we have come from.
Education
We believe that nothing can impassion you more to fully understanding a subject more than travel itself. Walking the battlefields is differs greatly from reading a text book.
We regard travel as a key educational tool in truly understanding the events that had taken place during the wars of our history.
On every tour, the Battlefield Tours Team takes you to the very fields, museums, memorials, and cemeteries to share insights, histories, stories, recollections, perspectives, strategy, and historical commentary like no other. We encourage conversations to be shared, questions, and conntributing personal stories and familial histories that all combine in to one of the greatest history lessons you could ever experience.
Community
The Battlefield Community reaches back to our beginnings in 1986, where Ian Cowan, now CEO, would take Veterans and their families overseas for special events, invited ceremonies, and oftentimes just so that families could connect with where they had lost a loved one. No matter what the motive, Ian carried a passion and respect for these individuals that fostered repeat travel many years over again.
Some of our travellers have been on more than 6 programs!
For you this means joining not just another group tour, but a well-integrated, motivated community, filled with a wealth of knowledge and information that they are willing to share.
Join us and you becoming apart of a big traveling Canadian family, with a mission to keep our nation's remarkable history alive.
Support
We continue to support organizations such as the Vimy Foundation of Canada, and the Royal Canadian Legion. We urge our travellers to donate and participate in any events and ceremonies hosted in the destiantions we embrace.
We are also fully dedicated to supporting these important components that ultimately contribute to our missions needs: urging Canadians to remember honour and respect our great history, on behalf of our forfathers who sacrificed so much for us. Therefore we aim to lend support to organizations such as "Thank a Soldier", Veterans Affiars, The Vimy Foundation, the 005 Canadian Regiment in Apeldoorn, The Juno Beach Center, and The Royal Canadian Legion.
If you would like to donate or join any of the above causes, we encourage it. Find out more, by reading about our partners.
Involvement
No matter where we are on tour or how many people we have with us, we believe it is our duty to represent Canadians at various events and ceremonies held around the world commemorating the World Wars and Canadian involvement.
These special acts of commemoration are made all the more exceptional by the turn out which often involve our fellow Veterans from around the world, the Commonwealth, Government leaders, and a mass of other incredible figureheads. We all congregate to take in together an incredible moment while standing in silence to commemorate those who have fallen.
We involve ourselves in every aspect of the tour, booking directly, and integrating our travellers into the communities we work with. This means that whereever we travel you are intriduced to a welcoming community.
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