does your history textbook explain how the whitehouse got its name?
in all seriousness, canadians fought and won some of the most important battles in WWI made all the more significant by our small numbers (there are also some hilarious stories about painting horses black, and shovels with holes in them).
and a lot of the planning for d-days success was reliant on a first (yes, failed) attempt elsewhere by commonwealth and majority canadian forces (realizing what kind of coast would work better, time of day/tide).