I also had a service in the cinema that evening.
It was a time of mingled anxiety and exhilaration.

What did the next twenty-four hours hold in store for us?
Was it to be a true Easter for the world, and a resurrection to a new and better life?
If death awaited us, what nobler passage could there be to Eternity than such a death in such a cause?
Never was the spirit of comradeship higher in the Canadian Corps.

Never was there a greater sense of unity.

The task laid upon us was a tremendous one, but in the heart of each man, from private to general, was the determination that it should be performed.
On that Easter night, the battalions took their places in the line.
The men at the guns, which had hitherto been concealed and kept silent, were ready to open fire at zero hour, and all along that front the eager heart of Canada waited impatiently for the dawn..