That Canada was involved in WWI?
Saw a question a long time ago about how Canada became involved. Lots of people said something along the lines of "You need to go back to school and learn about WWI, Canada wasn't involved!!!"
One of these people claimed to have had a degree in history...
How could you have a "degree in history", yet be so ignorant?
How would the war have gone if Canada had not been the only division to stand fast against the German gas attack at Ypres?
What if Canada hadn't seized Courcelette at the Somme?
How would the campaign in Arras gone if Vimy Ridge had not fallen?
What about The Canal Du Nord? Amiens? Cambrai?
"The Canadians played a part of such distinction that thenceforward they were marked out as storm troops; for the remainder of the war they were brought along to head the assault in one great battle after another. Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst." - PM Lloyd George
2007-11-09 06:59:30 · 11 answers · asked by CanadianFundamentalist 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
just like the new zealanders and many other countries in the same position. YOu can't take it personally.......
2007-11-09 07:02:14 · answer #1 · answered by Sarah J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I knew Canada played a part in WWI, and I have a degree in History, I really couldn't tell you the specifics. Modern history wasn't my area of specialization. Besides, degrees, anymore, I feel, just mean someone can regurgitate information back out as well as they took it in. At least, the undergrad degrees.
2007-11-09 07:03:03 · answer #2 · answered by Joshua B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A lot of people have little knowledge about either of the World Wars. It doesn't surprise me that a graduate didn't know because degrees allow you to choose what part of history you want to study, therefore his knowledge could not be encyclopaedic. Maybe someone higher on the academic ladder would have known - at least, I hope so.
2007-11-09 07:24:09 · answer #3 · answered by jenesuispasunnombre 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those people had to be Americans. They are blissfully
ignorant about other countries. Canada was in both world
wars from start to finish,while both times they sat on the sidelines until someone attacked them. In WW1 it was the
sinking of a ship by the Germans,in WW2 Pearl Harbor.
They are also unaware that in both wars their soldiers were
regularly outperformed by the Canadians.
2007-11-09 07:07:30 · answer #4 · answered by Alion 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Possibly the same reason that people don't know Christopher Columbus did not "discover" America, or recognize that the Native Americans were the first peoples on this continent, or that the white man tried to enslave the Native American's first - then found Africans and used them for laborers instead. The same way that THE REAL history of black people and others have been misquoted, miswritten and melted down to suit history writers from many points of view - including economical.
2007-11-09 07:07:02 · answer #5 · answered by THE SINGER 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Some people talk before they know. Canada has long been a supporter of the free world and most know it.
2007-11-09 07:04:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think most people assume that. How come most people dont know Canada was in the Boer War? or the Korean War?
2007-11-09 07:12:47 · answer #7 · answered by Roderick F 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Canada certainly was involved and had many citations for Bravery amongst its armed forces.
At the time Canada was part of the British Empire.
Canada is still a great and needed Friend to Britain as part of the Commonwealth.
Thanks!
2007-11-09 07:07:43 · answer #8 · answered by rogerglyn 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Canada was involved in WWI?
I never knew that!
2007-11-09 07:02:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
are you telling me what i know? canadians where in the war.. back in ww1 i got a bullet hole in my leg from that war
2007-11-09 07:08:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋