Editing Battle of Vimy Ridge (section)

===Influence on Canada===
The Battle of Vimy Ridge has considerable significance for Canada.{{refn|On importance to Canada, see Inglis. Outside of Canada the battle has much less significance and may simply be noted as being one part of the larger Battle of Arras.|group="Note"}} Although the battle is not generally considered the greatest achievement of the Canadian Corps in strategic importance or results obtained, it was the first instance in which all four Canadian divisions, made up of troops drawn from all parts of the country, fought together.{{sfn|Vance|1997|p=66}} The image of national unity and achievement is what, according to one of many recent patriotic narratives, initially gave the battle importance for Canada.{{sfn|Vance|1997|p=233}} According to Pierce, "The historical reality of the battle has been reworked and reinterpreted in a conscious attempt to give purpose and meaning to an event that came to symbolize Canada's coming of age as a nation".{{sfn|Pierce|1992|p=5}} That Canadian national identity and nationhood were born out of the battle is an opinion that in the late twentieth century became widely held in military and general histories of Canada.{{sfn|Inglis|1995|p=2}}{{sfn|Humphries|2007|p=66}} McKay and Swift contend that the theory that Vimy Ridge is a source of Canada's rise as a nation is highly contested and developed in the latter part of the twentieth century after most of those who experienced the Great War had died but in 1919 Hopkins had attributed to F.A. MacKenzie the recognition "...that Dominions sharing the common burden shall share the common direction of the Empire's war policy" and related Lloyd George's commitment that the Dominions would not again be engaged in wars without consultation.{{sfn|McKay|Swift|2016|pp=8, 11}}{{sfn|Hopkins|1919|pp=341, 343}}