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Yes. Even today there are high commissioners. So, for example, Canada has a HC in London, New Delhi and Wellington while having an ambassador in Washington, Beijing and Berlin.

High commissioner is the title Commonwealth countries use with each other instead of ambassador. Canada was first with a HC in London in the 1880s.

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was sent to capture the town of Wismar, which was in the zone assigned to the Soviets as well as close to the Danish border specifically to keep the Soviets from being able to potentially advance into Denmark. Unsurprisingly, the soviets weren’t happy to find...

The sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland in May 1914 would probably be a lot better known.

If Canada doesn’t declare war then its auto industry is going to keep manufacturing cars, not military vehicles.

Not once during the Cold War did Canada’s UN contributions ever even come close to equalling its NATO contributions. At peak, Canada had maybe about 3,000 troops on UN duty. NATO deployments in Europe were 4-5 times that number.

David Gilmour was 27 during the recording of The Dark Side of the Moon. Him dying at 27 completely alters Pink Floyd’s future output and maybe even they never become the giant success that they did. Edit: I’m wrong. He turned 27 just after the album was released. Still, would be interesting to...

Pretty much. I read an interview with a Swedish defence studies professor a couple years ago and he was asked why Russian warplanes and warships are trolling Sweden and Finland when they’re neutral and not members of NATO. His response was basically “because in the event of a war between Russia...

This bit actually happened. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment spent much of the war serving as marines on the Great Lakes.

The people responsible for the Air India bombing were all Canadian residents at the time and several had Canadian citizenship. So clearly some Sikhs outside India do care.

The numbers weren’t particularly large because of institutional racism, but Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indo-Canadians all served in the Canadian Army during the First World War. Maybe their service could’ve been leveraged to open Canada up to larger numbers of Asian immigrants after the war.

You’d also have to go outside the United States as the purchase included territory that’s now part of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Similarly, The Queen’s Rangers which was raised in New York and New England currently exists as The Queen’s York Rangers (1st American Regiment) in the Canadian Army.

Do what? Tell Britain to get bent? What’re they going to do about it? It’s what Canada told Britain during the Chanak Crisis which was just a few years after WW1. Hell, it’s what Canada told Britain at the start of WW1. Britain: We’re going to break up the Canadian battalions and use them...

A lot of the responses seem to depend on the belief that pre-1980s Canada was completely incapable of thinking or acting for itself. Britain goes fascist? Guess we have to be fascist now, too. France goes communist? So does Quebec despite the fact that Quebecers rioted twice against...