Scudrunners

Do you really think today's Canadians could accomplish this?

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s_Hundred_Days]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s_Hundred_Days[/url]

[quote]Canada’s Hundred Days is the name given to the series of attacks made by the Canadian Corps between 8 August and 11 November 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I.

Reference to this period as Canada's Hundred Days is due to the substantial role the Canadian Corps of the British First Army played during the offensive.

During this time, the Canadian Corps fought in:

the Battle of Amiens,
Second Battle of the Somme,
Battle of the Scarpe,
Battle of the Canal du Nord,
Battle of Cambrai,
Battle of the Selle,
Battle of Valenciennes and finally
at Mons,

on the final day of combat before the Armistice of 11 November 1918.

In terms of numbers, during those 96 days the Canadian Corps' four over-strength or 'heavy' divisions of roughly 100 000 men, engaged and defeated or put to flight elements of forty seven German divisions, which represented one quarter of the German forces faced by the Allied Powers fighting on the Western Front.

However their successes came at a heavy cost; Canadians suffered 20% of their battle-sustained casualties of the war during the same period.

The Canadian Corps suffered 45,835 casualties during this offensive[/quote]

Of course not.  Canadians today simply ensure that it is forgotten.

PS  Feel free to denigrate Max Aitken - very Canadian of
you.

A self-made millionaire by the age of 30 in 1909 -
that was a LOT of money back then - he was instrumental
in supplying new and rebuilt aircraft during WWII.  It's
fair to say that without him, the Battle of Britain (and
WWII) would have turned out differently.

Hell, his son was a triple ace in WWII, flying the aircraft
his father built.  Stuff movies are made of.  But not by
the CBC.

Because he was Canadian, into the dustbin of history
he goes.  And I'm a [b]BAD PERSON[/b] because I'm not
happy about that.

[quote]A search of the internet also doesn't bring up any dissing of Kevin Vickers[/quote]

Ah, so if it's not written down in the internet,
it never happened.  I shall remember that.

Well, I was in Ottawa when it happened, and
I was disgusted with what the slimy civil servants
said at the time, in a clearly jealous attempt to
cut Kevin Vickers down and minimize what he did.

How quickly people forget ... the bureaucrats hated
Stephen Harper intensely - google Harper Derangement
Syndrome - and they were unhappy with his survival
of the attack on Parliament Hill.  I guess to them,
Kevin Vickers was the bad guy.

Not your typical ambassador:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Vic ... to_Ireland

[quote]Vickers officially started duties as the Canadian ambassador to Ireland on 21 January 2015, replacing Loyola Hearn.

On May 26, 2016, Vickers engaged a protester who was interrupting a ceremony commemorating British soldiers who were killed in the 1916 Easter Rising, dragging the man to one side before handing him over to Gardaí officers[/quote]

My kind of guy, even if the bureaucrats hate him.

I found out about Mr Hoover from you two over at AvCan.

I enjoy finding out about people that do cool things like the guy that helped design the F-16 and A-10.

I like reading about guys like Roy Brown and the Jan something-ski who test flew the avro arrow.

You should start a thread about how in the fifties Canadians could build a pretty good fighter plane and now all we can build is RJs.

Oh and Welcome jehovas witness scud.

[quote author=Colonel Sanders link=topic=3911.msg10454#msg10454 date=1471066991]

If a poll was conducted of Canadians, I suspect
their vote for the greatest Canadian ever would
be that kid that lost his leg to cancer.  You know,
the biggest victim.


[/quote]


That kid ran half way across Canada on one leg. Definitely not a pussy. Much more deserving to be on the list that the sate broadcaster put together than many of the others.


I agree that we punched way above our weight in WW I and II and we should not forget what our fathers/grandfathers did back then.

Anyone learning history from me should ask for
their tuition back!

But seriously, what on earth do children do in
public schools for [b]TWELVE YEARS?[/b]  They certainly
don't learn much about mathematics, physics,
chemistry or biology.  Am I to assume they learn
nothing about history as well?

Am I being unreasonable here?  You can murder
someone in Canada and get out after eight years
(one third of life (25 year) sentence served).

Given that all children in Canada spend longer in
school than a murderer spends in prison, is it
too much to hope for them to learn a little
Canadian history?

I sometimes get this weird feeling that for 95%
of Canadians, Canada was started in the 70's by
elder Trudeau, and nothing before that counts.

I'm descended from the 7,500 UEL's that founded
Upper Canada, something which I am sure thrilled
the Quebeckers.  [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph ... olitician)]They[/url] were in [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Fam ... f_Virginia]Virginia[/url] for over 100
years before the revolutionary war.

Both my grandfathers fought in WWI (one).  I suspect
that people like me represent perhaps 5% of Canadians
at most, and that 95% of Canadians don't know shit
about how Canada came to be, and really couldn't
give a fuck.

I don't know if my great grand parents were much different than any other immigrants here. They did not come to hunt bison and live in tents. They built wooden houses, spoke English and grew wheat. Their sons rebelled and fought in WW I, one of them in a kilt.

I don't love it but I guess that is how Canada Works. The next group trying to make it more like home. You are probably right when the next Trudeau takes the reigns, maybe there will be three official languages.

If Canadians liked victems wouldn't they like the original inhabitants best.