"A 'deafening silence': Canada still struggles with the" Topic

… Second World War's legacy, says historian

"Seventy-five years ago today, a little-known Canadian colonel — a half-blind veteran of the First World War — sat pen in hand before a dark cloth-covered table on the quarterdeck of the American battleship U.S.S. Missouri.

Allied warships had assembled in a long, grey line in the stifling heat of Tokyo Bay — a mute audience for the moment the victors met the vanquished.

Along with a host of military glitterati that included U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Col. Lawrence Cosgrave accepted the surrender of the Japanese empire on Canada's behalf. He signed on the wrong line, causing a minor kerfuffle that was soon rectified by MacArthur's chief of staff with a stroke of his own pen…"
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Armand

I can sort of see this. I know the Canadians were responsible for one of the five landing beaches at Normandy, but it seems to be rolled up, Gold-Juno-Sword, as part of the British effort. I've also read that Canada came out of the war with one of the world's largest navies (third or fourth, I think), but we tend to forget that, somehow.

Grelber

I never understood why France was one of the "great powers" and Canada was not – they probably felt represented by the UK, but the Canadian efforts deserved more influence later on.

History, plus France still had her empire.

Agree!.

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Armand

True story

At the end of WWII Canada had the world's third largest navy and fourth largest air force

I also agree that Canada in WWII was a little too much of a loyal part of the Empire when it comes to getting credit!

Well they certainly pulled their own weight in both Worlds War and Korea. Like the "ANZACs, they did their duty to the Empire repeatedly.