What is "vimy"

Vimy ( or ; ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.

Vimy (1952 – 11 August 1980) was a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the 1955 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Racing in France, Vimy won three of his five races including the Prix Noailles as well as finishing second in the Prix du Jockey Club. In July he became the first French horse to win the King George on his first and only race in Britain. He was retired from racing after his win at Ascot and stood as a stallion in Ireland before being exported to Japan in 1964.

Vimy is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015.

Vimy was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for 19 October 2015. It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Laval (78%), Laval—Les Îles (12%) and Alfred-Pellan (11%).

Vimy is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France

Vimy may also refer to:

• Vimy, Alberta, hamlet in central Alberta, Canada
• Vimy (electoral district), Canadian federal electoral district in Quebec created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution
• Canton of Vimy, previous canton in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015
• Vimy (horse) a French Thoroughbred racehorse
• Vimy Memorial Bridge, previously the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge, bridge in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Vimy Foundation, Canadian charity focused on raising awareness of the role Canada played in World War I
• Vimy House, warehouse in western Ottawa, Canada, that used to store most of the collection of the Canadian War Museum