Okay, there are some good ones there.
The Boer War, the South African War, is something that we in fact commemorate. I think if you look at the Canada Remembers Times this year and last year and the year before, you will see we have material on the South African War. We think it's important that Canadians, particularly young Canadians in this instance, are made aware of what happened, because for most Canadians it is entirely forgotten.
We're trying to correct that in terms of a special commemoration for next year, which, as you say, is the 110th anniversary of the end of the South African War. We don't have a particular event planned, but I am going to look into something we might be able to do here at the National War Memorial that would raise awareness further on that.
In terms of overseas commemoration, I do agree that it's important. We have 110,000 Canadians, or thereabouts, who are buried all around the world. It is important, I think, that Canadians pay tribute to them where they lie.
One very, very encouraging part of what we've seen over the last number of years is that increasingly large numbers of Canadian high school students, through the support of their teachers, are raising their own funds and travelling overseas to pay tribute to Canadians where they lie. While these tend to be on the major anniversaries, they don't just go to the major sites, such as the Canadian National Vimy Memorial or the Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, they go to many other Canadian war cemeteries and Canadian memorials overseas.
Next year, for example, for the 95th anniversary of Vimy, there are already 4,000 to 5,000 Canadian high school students who will be participating in the ceremonies we will organize at Vimy next April. Last year we had over 2,000—2,200, I think it was—in the Netherlands for the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands.
That's a very, very encouraging trend, to see young Canadians travelling overseas to pay tribute to Canadians where they lie. In fact the groups organizing for Vimy have many other events they're working on as well. Most notably, for the 100th anniversary of Vimy in 2017, we are expecting between 20,000 and 25,000 Canadian high school students. Some schools and organizations have already started planning for the 100th anniversary.