Oh please, schools barely made it past WW1 in history classes even when I was in school. They do a quick jump to the civil rights movement and then speed run through everything post 70s during that post-test period a few weeks before summer starts and everyone already knows if they’ve graduated
My partner and I are only just learning the details of the War of 1812 now that we’re in our 30s. Virtually everyone we’ve asked agrees that they were never taught much about it in school. It was maybe a page max, and we grew up in NY state.
Now that we’re researching it and learning Canada’s side of it, it’s eye opening as to why we were never taught about it.
Tbf, I took a semester on Canadian History, and well, there’s not a lot there. It’s American history-lite. Like one of your big battles had like 30 casualties.
Quantifying history by how bloody the battles were is the most American thing I’ve heard in a while.
There were trade wars. The history of the Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Trading is bloody as hell. They shaped the country. No one really knows how many people died in their skirmishes. They built forts that still stand today, and they’re why a lot of towns/areas are called Fort(name.)
Louis Riel is a fascinating figure, like a tricksy, bloody, charming asshole who literally beheaded a diplomatic envoy. He, himself, was beheaded. The whole history of the Metis people is fascinating.
The Acadians and their connection to the Cajuns (a condensed slang of Acadian. Cadian. Cajian…) is pretty neat. It’s a whole other French culture most Canadians don’t even know about.
Not to mention all the whitewashed history of indigenous peoples, their histories and cultures. Indigenous leader’s push for justice reform, based on their cultures and needs, is changing the way the justice system works in Canada, and influencing the world.
Oh please, schools barely made it past WW1 in history classes even when I was in school. They do a quick jump to the civil rights movement and then speed run through everything post 70s during that post-test period a few weeks before summer starts and everyone already knows if they’ve graduated
My partner and I are only just learning the details of the War of 1812 now that we’re in our 30s. Virtually everyone we’ve asked agrees that they were never taught much about it in school. It was maybe a page max, and we grew up in NY state.
Now that we’re researching it and learning Canada’s side of it, it’s eye opening as to why we were never taught about it.
In Canada we learned all about the war of 1812.
Burning down the Whitehouse is a point of pride for Canadians.
Tbf, I took a semester on Canadian History, and well, there’s not a lot there. It’s American history-lite. Like one of your big battles had like 30 casualties.
Quantifying history by how bloody the battles were is the most American thing I’ve heard in a while.
There were trade wars. The history of the Hudson’s Bay Company and North West Trading is bloody as hell. They shaped the country. No one really knows how many people died in their skirmishes. They built forts that still stand today, and they’re why a lot of towns/areas are called Fort(name.)
Louis Riel is a fascinating figure, like a tricksy, bloody, charming asshole who literally beheaded a diplomatic envoy. He, himself, was beheaded. The whole history of the Metis people is fascinating.
The Acadians and their connection to the Cajuns (a condensed slang of Acadian. Cadian. Cajian…) is pretty neat. It’s a whole other French culture most Canadians don’t even know about.
Not to mention all the whitewashed history of indigenous peoples, their histories and cultures. Indigenous leader’s push for justice reform, based on their cultures and needs, is changing the way the justice system works in Canada, and influencing the world.