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You were probably never taught much about Canada in school.
That friend from Spokane...which is only a 3 hour drive to the border, said they never learned anything about Canada.
It's not unusual for Canadians to have some Americans express surprise that Canada was in the Second World War.
I realize that this varies across the US.
We seriously were not taught much about Canada in school. All I can recall is being taught about the early settlers of North America before we became anything like "the 13 Colonies" and Canada is where all the beaver trapping and fur trade was, and some of that extended down into what's now the U.S. Maybe a mention of Marconi and St. John.
I did know that Canada had a military of its own, but sort of in a "it's a Branch of the UK's Army" sort of way.
HAD NO IDEA--and this one is really pathetic--that the War of 1812 was actually fought with British Canadians and not the people across the ocean. And i only learned from my Toronto Distillery District Haunted Walking Tour this October that the US burned the wooden Parliament building then in Toronto, which is what prompted the burning of our White House. Which was not white until after the burning because they had to paint over the burn marks on the gray granite.
HAD NO IDEA--and this one is really pathetic--that the War of 1812 was actually fought with British Canadians and not the people across the ocean. And i only learned from my Toronto Distillery District Haunted Walking Tour this October that the US burned the wooden Parliament building then in Toronto, which is what prompted the burning of our White House. Which was not white until after the burning because they had to paint over the burn marks on the gray granite.
Haunted walking tours are best for learning about the history of a place more than the ghost aspects lol..
If you in the Dt Toronto area again sometime you might find Fort York (Toronto was known as the town of York during the war) interesting.
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I think I know why.
