Why Do Canadians Go Ballistic During War

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  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  หลายเดือนก่อน +536

    This video was made possible thanks to everyone on the Simple History Patreon: www.patreon.com/simplehistory

    • @pyeitme508
      @pyeitme508 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      BRUH

    • @bww9450
      @bww9450 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Uh Canada!

    • @BramdeKoning-x5n
      @BramdeKoning-x5n หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Simple history you forgot leo major.

    • @ReinaTK8
      @ReinaTK8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Deadpool: No One Said My.
      Country Name In Front Of Me!.
      Logan/Wolverine: You Know What?.
      Don't Make Me Angry About My Home.
      Trevor: Hey Is A Word From Canada OK?.
      (A Word From Few Canadian.
      That Is Not Very Nice To Us).

    • @RandomEmergency392
      @RandomEmergency392 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      why'd you change the thumbnail

  • @AssimilationKaelThas
    @AssimilationKaelThas หลายเดือนก่อน +10265

    Canadian here.
    They taught us in school, that our units formed at the time of conscription kept people from the same community together.
    So, you fought alongside your family and friends. Seeing them die, would tend to induce strong feelings.

    • @scottdelahunt586
      @scottdelahunt586 หลายเดือนก่อน +775

      There's a road in Winnipeg that was renamed to Valour Road after three men who lived so close to each other each won the Victoria Cross for actions in WWI. There's a Heritage Minute about it and the men.

    • @silverblueshadow
      @silverblueshadow หลายเดือนก่อน +265

      i thought when they said we canadians fought valiantly, it's just what every textbook would say re: their own troops. i didnt know we're THAT much of a fighting beast. now it's up to us to live up to the legacy while maintaining ethics

    • @petermaxwell6748
      @petermaxwell6748 หลายเดือนก่อน +199

      I think you meant "enlistment", not "conscription".
      Canadians volunteered(enlisted) in both WWI and WWII. Enlistment campaigns allowed friends, family, and neighbours to serve together in the same unit. While it led to increased unit cohesion, it likely also contributed to revenge killings of POWs.
      Conscription only began to be implemented in January of 1918, and it was only after amendments to the Military Service Act in mid-1918, ending most exemptions that conscription started to be implemented in earnest. In WWI only 47,509 conscripted were even sent overseas, starting in May of 1918, with only 24,132 reaching France before the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918.
      In WWII conscription played an even smaller role, with only 2,463 conscripts being put on the front lines, out of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, before Germany surrendered in May of 1945.

    • @ranvijaysingh5459
      @ranvijaysingh5459 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      @@scottdelahunt586 it’s a bus stop now😢 it’s sad such history goes unnoticed every day buy almost every one

    • @zoloftsucks-archive7608
      @zoloftsucks-archive7608 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When was this? Are you guys still ready for war?

  • @jasonrand5995
    @jasonrand5995 หลายเดือนก่อน +5458

    Nova Scotian here. I remembere a vet talking, rather bluntly, about killing Germans crude and brutally (wont get into it cause NSFW).
    My dad asked why he did such horrid things, and I still remember the vets reply.
    "Cause I wanted to go home".

    • @androidsystem5850
      @androidsystem5850 หลายเดือนก่อน +114

      Damm

    • @blammela
      @blammela หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      My GPa had similar stories

    • @siouxxi
      @siouxxi หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      Fellow nova scotian, I never see vets, pretty rare

    • @Trigger200284
      @Trigger200284 หลายเดือนก่อน +152

      @@siouxxiuhhh because WWII ended almost 80 years ago…

    • @cameron3578
      @cameron3578 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I have a feeling I know who you're talking about

  • @theredscourge
    @theredscourge หลายเดือนก่อน +2072

    Canadian here, we found out that the longer a war lasts, the more likely we won't survive, so we just decided to end them as fast as possible, and it turns out the other side surrenders faster when they're terrified.
    Also, the Brits forgot to tell us that there were rules.

    • @itsmrhunter
      @itsmrhunter หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      Thank you for your service. You type extremely well for a 95+ year old

    • @HistoryObliterates-o4k
      @HistoryObliterates-o4k หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      @@itsmrhunter Can't tell if this is sarcastic or real.

    • @daveengland8931
      @daveengland8931 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      that "also" threw me off guard, thanks for that lmfao
      true yet funny, love it.

    • @theredscourge
      @theredscourge หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      @@itsmrhunter I thought it was you young whipper-snappers with your new-fangled texting and your acronyms and your TikToks who tend to not type so well.

    • @Mr-__-Sy
      @Mr-__-Sy หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Lmao that last line checks everything about you

  • @huntery3568
    @huntery3568 หลายเดือนก่อน +675

    As a Canadian immigrant, my observation is:
    Canadians are very polite, and place a high value on playing by the rules. When there are rules, Canadians will operate within them.
    If you break the rules, Canadians get very, very upset.
    If there are no rules at all, Canadians will quickly make it clear why there really should have been rules in place.

    • @HiRye
      @HiRye หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      Interesting take. As a conservative thinking canadian, I tend to agree. Everyone is free to live, so long as they comply with what we deem to be basic, civilized behavior.

    • @RemiCouture
      @RemiCouture 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +35

      Yes, and it explains why I get upset with people that can't simply follow rules.

    • @cookiesup2music
      @cookiesup2music 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      complacency pretty much.. that's why we still have a king. sad, sad stuff. weak people in my homeland.

    • @CaeridLock.
      @CaeridLock. 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Fool me once, shame on you...and that's all, that's it

    • @BFRZ89
      @BFRZ89 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      That's what I always tell my wife from the Philippines. This is Canada, not the Philippines. We have rules, and rules create order. Follow the rules, or else.

  • @robertwillsea3338
    @robertwillsea3338 หลายเดือนก่อน +12246

    "It ain't a war crime the first time". Canadians when they go to war

  • @Banditt42
    @Banditt42 หลายเดือนก่อน +4755

    An American Veteran said in a Documentary I was watching on the Italian campaign:
    If you can't take control of a city bring in the Canadians. They will clear it in a day. Tell them their is booze in there, and they will clear it in hours.

    • @288theabe
      @288theabe หลายเดือนก่อน +359

      As a Canadian, WHERE???? 😂😂

    • @icky_mack
      @icky_mack หลายเดือนก่อน +104

      ​@@288theabeto late hoser.

    • @Killer1986Chris
      @Killer1986Chris หลายเดือนก่อน +210

      Try telling our forces that the city has the puck.

    • @cruisinguy6024
      @cruisinguy6024 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      there is booze **

    • @danielloewen2857
      @danielloewen2857 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      ​@@Killer1986Chris 30 minutes tops

  • @canardcoincoin1582
    @canardcoincoin1582 หลายเดือนก่อน +2427

    My theory is that Canadian are polite and expect reciprocity. If you broke peace and make them stand up from his warm and cozy chair. he'll make sure you never do that again.

    • @TiL_Deimos
      @TiL_Deimos หลายเดือนก่อน +242

      @@canardcoincoin1582 we canadians are built around respect and tolerance for others. breach that tolerance and you will reap what you sow. 🇨🇦

    • @electrochocc
      @electrochocc หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      ​@@TiL_Deimossadly, there are a lot of Canadians that breach that tolerance on a daily basis

    • @goosefromcanada
      @goosefromcanada หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      lol we’re having theories of war now

    • @nephicus339
      @nephicus339 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Can confirm.

    • @West-rn-showvn-ist-chick
      @West-rn-showvn-ist-chick หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      @@electrochoccIt takes a lot for us Canadians to be so called “intolerant”… 3rd and 4th generation Canadians who’s ancestors literally built up this country like many members of my ancestors, cleared the land for farming, built houses themselves, had absolutely no handouts.. plus paid taxes for generations and now we see immigrants coming in and receiving government assistance, huge grants and subsidies, driving new vehicles, and taking advantage of our welfare system! Of course we are fed up! They get more money in grants than Canadian citizens to open businesses or take over businesses and hire their family members who can barely speak the language! Cause housing shortages and rents to skyrocket!! Ffs! There’s a point where being too tolerant is detrimental! My blond kids are not going to get affirmative action or diversity hired!! We have every right to be absolutely pissed! We’re paying for their luxury!

  • @Mrkabrat
    @Mrkabrat 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +89

    If memory serves, the canadian reasoning was "This is a war, the sooner we end it, the sooner we go home. So why play nice?"

    • @DamienDarkside
      @DamienDarkside 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Canadian here, we gets jobs done. Tell us there is beer, it's done in hours.

  • @havokvladimirovichstalinov
    @havokvladimirovichstalinov หลายเดือนก่อน +8811

    Remember: Canada is the reason behind a large portion of the early Geneva Conventions

    • @Deere2154D
      @Deere2154D หลายเดือนก่อน +807

      Suggestions

    • @taggie_
      @taggie_ หลายเดือนก่อน +275

      Oh that might be true but I promise you that's all in the past. We aren't that 'uptight' and 'tough'. Lets Give credit to our neighbour down south.

    • @soulknife20
      @soulknife20 หลายเดือนก่อน +166

      ​@@taggie_We do love our war crime sticks

    • @kylemackinnon5696
      @kylemackinnon5696 หลายเดือนก่อน +244

      You mean the checklist?

    • @viper_1889
      @viper_1889 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Hush now that's a Secret

  • @oli9881
    @oli9881 หลายเดือนก่อน +1165

    Canada during peacetime: "I'm sorry"
    Canada during wartime: "You're sorry"

    • @ThepursuitofHappiness-fb8iy
      @ThepursuitofHappiness-fb8iy 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      American : there's more than 4 genders

    • @Sinjon_Dakin
      @Sinjon_Dakin 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      More like “you’re sorry?”

    • @BigERacing
      @BigERacing 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Sinjon_Dakin Actually the question mark goes after the ".

    • @chrisallain2908
      @chrisallain2908 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      No no no, canadians during peacetime “i’m sorry”
      Canadians during war time “im sorry”

    • @theoddfellow8106
      @theoddfellow8106 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      "I'll make you sorry"

  • @blueballs9712
    @blueballs9712 หลายเดือนก่อน +1331

    My great-uncle served with many Canadians in WW2. He said they were just built different. Any time we speak about his experience at war, he always brings up the Canadians. He still raves about how little they seemed to be bothered by certain horrific conditions. They just shrugged it off and kept moving. He jokes around sometimes and says they were like a bunch of lions who weren't afraid of gunshots. They went for the kill. "Brutal and respectable men" is what he says.

    • @ELee-zv5ud
      @ELee-zv5ud หลายเดือนก่อน +128

      That's because even as late as WW11 most of the population was rural, had survived the depression and worked in mines, farms, lumbering, fishing and so were used to very primitive living conditions, brutal winters and massive poverty. Only the strong lasted. Electricity had not arrived in much of the prairies or north until the 50s or later for the north. e.g., There were houses in Toronto no less that still had dirt floors until after WW11.

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      ​@@ELee-zv5ud
      And we survive our brutal winters by helping each other.
      6 months of cold toughen us up!!!

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Don't forget our winters!!!

    • @bollocks42o
      @bollocks42o หลายเดือนก่อน

      My Welsh grandpa decided to move to Canada after fighting alongside them in WW2 🥰 Happy to be born Canadian

    • @anari234
      @anari234 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/g1awwAgU_t8/w-d-xo.html The Canadians Arrive.

  • @abouttime5000
    @abouttime5000 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

    Many Canadian soldiers were frontiersmen and farmers, lumberjacks, trappers, construction workers, railroad workers, and they were simply tough as nails.

    • @DaveGIS123
      @DaveGIS123 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      In WW1, many Canadian soldiers were immigrants from Great Britain who still felt loyalty to the "mother country".

  • @DeNihility
    @DeNihility หลายเดือนก่อน +5046

    In school, we were taught that Canadians treated PoWs exceptionally well. What they didn't teach us was that these PoWs weren't captured by Canadians themselves, those PoWs were sent to Canada by their allies to hold on to, since they rarely ever took prisoners at all. 💀

    • @288theabe
      @288theabe หลายเดือนก่อน +287

      Canada had room to hold them 😂😂

    • @gilliesiut2332
      @gilliesiut2332 หลายเดือนก่อน +237

      Our POW’s where actually any German or Japanese civilians that happened to be living in Canada who where put into holding camps

    • @mikeemmons1079
      @mikeemmons1079 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@gilliesiut2332 Liberals, again. If you check, every horrible act performed by our government originated from a Liberal, or proto-liberal, in the case of Sir John A. government.

    • @stinkypete2892
      @stinkypete2892 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@gilliesiut2332 not entirely true. The patterson armories in medicine hat ab housed captured German troops and I'm sure it's not the only one

    • @Atlas_high-gaming
      @Atlas_high-gaming หลายเดือนก่อน +110

      ​@@gilliesiut2332You're thinking of the second world war

  • @danielmcturk3961
    @danielmcturk3961 หลายเดือนก่อน +1240

    My Grandfather was a Major in WW2 and once told me that "War is terrible and should be avoided at all costs but when it is upon you do what it takes to get it done quickly and efficiently. Its not a game, there is no honor, just do the job. The longer a war goes on the worse the suffereing and collateral damage".

    • @zxph
      @zxph หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      Your grandfather is a wise man

    • @WireHedd
      @WireHedd หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      amen.

    • @AllThatRemains5
      @AllThatRemains5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@zxphAgreed.

    • @vanessajones4626
      @vanessajones4626 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Agreed

    • @georgeprosser8959
      @georgeprosser8959 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Fus sure. THANK-YOU.❤

  • @echowhiskeylima5276
    @echowhiskeylima5276 หลายเดือนก่อน +976

    I remember reading somewhere they were so vicious cause they viewed it as a job to get done and go home.

    • @zerospace101
      @zerospace101 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

      Funny enough it was

    • @DavidPhaneuf-Dorval
      @DavidPhaneuf-Dorval หลายเดือนก่อน +112

      I talked to a veteran once and told me the same thing!! He said I had a kid and a wife and I need to get out of here fast for them... So like a job you get up get it done and get back to my loved ones.. the stories of that man 😬😱😨

    • @TheDanLevy
      @TheDanLevy หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Basically Wayne from Letterkenny. Finish up fighting this war & get back home for some choring 😅

    • @louisdesautels8462
      @louisdesautels8462 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If I was send in a contry far away to combat for the people who colonize me and my friend die in front of me, I wont let those German live one more then second. (Btw I'm Canadien)

    • @1SilverDollar
      @1SilverDollar หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      ​I wonder if that job mentality didn't further fester the battle rage. Encouraged to be a gold soldier not because of glory or duty but because everyone deserves to get his work and come back able.
      Maybe just my brain overthinking but when others watch they buddies go down it shatters the glory mentality as the reality hits like a truck. 'My poor friend. We were supposed to march forth easily and become heros to our folks and the nation.' With a less righteous mindset it makes it less terrifying and more frustrating instead. 'He was supposed to do a tour and come home. Now the ijots gunned him down recklessly.' That kinda feeling could have made it more pertinent to take revenge and do finish the job because it's the _least you can do._

  • @GideonGrimmGaming
    @GideonGrimmGaming หลายเดือนก่อน +92

    Look, when you’re stuck being polite all the time and the only release is hockey, war ends up being a great anger management tool.

    • @joesalyers
      @joesalyers หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      This is a really underrated comment HAHAHAHA! Hockey its like Boxing with the bonus of a team sport on ice!

    • @VesBox-s2g
      @VesBox-s2g 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      gotta take advantage of the power play

    • @flamingrubys11
      @flamingrubys11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      imagine if aawar cancels a hockey season

  • @OnlyIfiCould
    @OnlyIfiCould หลายเดือนก่อน +1856

    I what I like to consider a side effect of holding all that anger in for such long periods

    • @princeofpokemon2934
      @princeofpokemon2934 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      The same can be said about other people such as the Americans and Europeans

    • @bobthecomputerguy
      @bobthecomputerguy หลายเดือนก่อน +107

      This can also be seen when they play hockey.

    • @BeingSleepySucks
      @BeingSleepySucks หลายเดือนก่อน

      If we didn't have hockey we would be bloodthirsty warriors. But with it we still are, just slightly more sated.

    • @joshuaingram571
      @joshuaingram571 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      That and a need to burn off pancakes and syrup.

    • @DarthJarJar_542
      @DarthJarJar_542 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@princeofpokemon2934no Americans love to go to war

  • @KS-xk2so
    @KS-xk2so หลายเดือนก่อน +544

    I remember reading an account of when a German officer was captured, the Allies thought they had a spy in their midst, because the Germans had successfully predicted several Allied attacks along the trenchlines in a row.... when asked how the Germans could've known exactly where the Allies planned to attacked the trenches he simply replied "We knew wherever you put the Canadians was going to be where the push was."

    • @J1407b_slugcat
      @J1407b_slugcat หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      That’s actually wild-

    • @bradkubota6968
      @bradkubota6968 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      Yes, The Germans primary information they wanted from accross the front line was, "where are the Canadians". This became known to the allies and tried to use it for advantage.

    • @pulleyfm8585
      @pulleyfm8585 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      Canada's forces had basically no conscripted soldiers in ww1 or ww2. Historically just surviving in Canada meant you had to be tough as nails and ultimately you had to help your community no matter the danger or self sacrifice involved. To not help people around you was literally not an option because everyone at some point needed something to just survive. When your military's backbone is that strong of a core belief in what they're doing AND then combine it with men that were already used to living in harsh conditions. When you have units built of that fortitude you're going to use them where they can be the most effective.
      Even with the world become more global and most nations seeing their historic values erode there's a lot of Canadians who went to the Ukraine to fight. Think Canada's third for men that went behind the US and Georgia but there's not much in it really.

    • @reillysharp4890
      @reillysharp4890 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@elliotsadowy1371I haven’t heard about dieppe in forever holy crap it’s been like 10 years

    • @vernonmcphee6746
      @vernonmcphee6746 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@bradkubota6968 My father was a WW2 Canadian veteran and part of the routine when their units were shifted they were ordered to remove all Canadian identifying badges/insignia precisely for that reason. Towards the end of WW1they secretly moved the Canadian Corps in a series of night marches to another section of the line miles away for the same reason so the Germans would think the attack was coming in the original location.

  • @danb239
    @danb239 หลายเดือนก่อน +706

    As a Canadian who was in the Army it's sad to see other Canadians and Americans rip on our Army out of pure ignorance. Just because it is small dosen't mean it isn't respected. Some of the best snipers in the world are Canadian, Rob Furlong/ Dallas Alexander and his team had the records for longest confirmed kill.
    I know it was a long time ago but World War 1 Canada was BADASS, they were the first to get attacked by gas in the battle of Ypres, they had too piss on cloths so they could breath through them and repelled the attack. Battle of the Somme there was 1.2 million casualties in 5 months, Britain lost 57,000 troops on day 1, the most on a single day in Britain's history. Canada shows up and uses the creeping barrage for the first time, takes multiple positions and wins the battle. There was also Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele among others, pretty amazing for a Country fighting together for the first time as an independent military.

    • @dippshow
      @dippshow หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Thank you for your service buddy!

    • @carlchong7592
      @carlchong7592 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      We're good shots because we're cheap on the ammo budget. C9 gunners quickly mutter "budget cut" as a guideline for how long a burst should be. Quickly say Budget Cut. That's how long you hold the trigger down for as a Canadian SAW gunner.

    • @Orthanderis
      @Orthanderis หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Interesting to note, JTF2 is widely considered the best search and destroy special forces in the world because that's all they specialize in. Navy seals, SAS, and other T1 groups are the best of the best but they also serve other functions; JTF2 purpose is singular; fly in via helicopter, kill everything, leave.

    • @shortyipper
      @shortyipper หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      @@sommebuddy YOu just have a massive hateboner for Canada don't ya bud?
      also @danb239 on the sniper note. A buddy of mine, one of his grandma's was teaching the boys how to shoot Nazi's in WW2. So in essence she's the grandmother of modern sniping.

    • @danb239
      @danb239 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

      @@sommebuddy Please explain who won the battle of the Somme then if Canada didn't. It was a stalemate until the Canadians showed up. Canada captured strategic positions Courcelette, Theipval Ridge, Ancre Heights and Regina trench. They captured Desire trench on November 18th 1916 and that was the end of the battle.
      As for the creeping barrage, this is directly from a world war 1 historical website: Although considered as a battlefield tactic as early as 1915 (and initially deployed by Bulgarian artillerists during the Adrianople siege of March 1913) the so-called 'creeping barrage' was not actually deployed until August 1916 by the British (Sir Henry Horne) during the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front. I'm not saying they invented it but they were the first to successfully implement it and perfected it. The British and Henry Horne weren't successful in using it and had 419,000 casualties during that battle. I have never heard of the British using it during the Boer war, after some research it seems that this was the first use of the barrage and it was used as covering fire, not the same as creeping barrage.
      Calling my history abysmal while trying to diminish the accomplishments and valor of the Canadians who faught and died in world war 1 is truly pathetic and classless. I joined the Army when I was 18 and was in the same regiment as some of the men who faught in these battles, I really don't need a history lesson from a keyboard warrior.

  • @adampatterson
    @adampatterson 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Many of the Canadian Devil's Brigade members were from Edmonton's Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. My Dads brother was in that infantry but not the Devil's Brigade.

  • @johnrandolph1989
    @johnrandolph1989 หลายเดือนก่อน +6848

    And remember, Deadpool and Wolverine are canonically confirmed Canadians.

    • @K3ntucky123
      @K3ntucky123 หลายเดือนก่อน +299

      Trevor was canadian doe

    • @Canadianvoice
      @Canadianvoice หลายเดือนก่อน +133

      Long before it was a trendy movie too.

    • @Canadianvoice
      @Canadianvoice หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same with ryan renoylds the whole reason you have that greatneas.​@@K3ntucky123

    • @Hrrrrrrrrrreng
      @Hrrrrrrrrrreng หลายเดือนก่อน +280

      Fun fact: Super man was also originally written by a Canadian, and is based on Ontario. The Fraser valley is also referred to as “little Hollywood”

    • @GizmoGary
      @GizmoGary หลายเดือนก่อน +119

      wolverine was a WW1 and WW2 veteran, he probably sliced up thousands of jerries

  • @jon9021
    @jon9021 หลายเดือนก่อน +457

    I remember watching a documentary years ago. They had interviewed a WWI German veteran (this was in the 1970’s)..& they were scared of Canadian troops coming into the line..BUT if they heard the skirl of the pipes indicating a Canadian highland unit, they became TERRIFIED as they knew they would take no prisoners.

    • @madisonrogers9575
      @madisonrogers9575 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      im proud to have served as 5th generation highlander

    • @whoopass2rb
      @whoopass2rb หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@madisonrogers9575 Thank you for your service! What an honour.

    • @andrewdonatelli6953
      @andrewdonatelli6953 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      My great uncle was a Seaforth Highlander. He was killed in the final month of WW I. Friends from Belgium were the first to visit his grave in 2018, 100 years after he died.

    • @andrewb9940
      @andrewb9940 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      bagpipes are the only instrument considered a weapon of war. ( scottish canuck )

    • @HughTube-ni6kb
      @HughTube-ni6kb หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      A hundred years ago, a taste of the Claymore would cost you an arm and a leg.

  • @paddington1670
    @paddington1670 หลายเดือนก่อน +2286

    Never forget, Canada declared war on Japan after Pearl Harbor attack before the Americans did. Canada was already into it, and was willing to go all in, every time.

    • @SnailOXD
      @SnailOXD หลายเดือนก่อน +346

      Canada: "we see where this is going, alright you're on Japan"
      US: "Wait Canada, we haven't declared war yet"
      Canada: "Yet :)"

    • @kenk7282
      @kenk7282 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

      Canada declared war when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Pearl Harbour was over two years later, on December 7, 1941.

    • @BlargKing
      @BlargKing หลายเดือนก่อน +158

      @@kenk7282 Yeah declared war on *Germany* in 1939, not Japan.

    • @lalitmehra4652
      @lalitmehra4652 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Well canadians were with others in the commonwealth army with the brits so that explains a lot

    • @TheRealAaronSmith
      @TheRealAaronSmith หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kenk7282try to follow along.

  • @mallowalt2240
    @mallowalt2240 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    one of my great grandfathers was in the devils brigade, we still have his knife and stickers from the war. apparently, according to him, it turns out the phrase wasn't translated properly and further confused and terrified the germans. i remember foggy memories of hearing stories about them sneaking into camps after taking out their patrols, and then dispatching the sleeping germans in their camp. having those stickers haunted me as a kid, considering their implications. they'd be slapped on helmets placed on the heads of corpses. grim stuff.

  • @bluehealer81
    @bluehealer81 หลายเดือนก่อน +756

    On my wife's side of the family, her great-great grandfather was a full-blooded Mohawk from Ontario. He fought at Vimy Ridge and was wounded charging a machine gun nest, he recovered and he went to re-enlist, but he was denied, not just for his injury, but also because it was discovered he was only 15 years old and had lied on his original application. Wow, right?

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Dayum. 😳

    • @AaronCubitt96
      @AaronCubitt96 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      As an Ojibwe bear clan, yeah. straight 🪖 warriors

    • @HughTube-ni6kb
      @HughTube-ni6kb หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      IN WW2 every single man capable in Curve Lake volunteered. Every single one. To join, they had to give up their status. What community was your ancestor from? I taught in Tyendenaga and served with several in the RCN and Army. No one is tougher than the Kanien'kehà:ka

    • @henryhernandez46
      @henryhernandez46 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Good movie material. My respect

    • @vazken9178
      @vazken9178 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And in 2024 we now have tampons in the men’s bathroom on military bases.

  • @HiimAbyss
    @HiimAbyss หลายเดือนก่อน +293

    I grew up close to the Valcartier base in Quebec, so active-duty uniforms and veterans were a common sight in my city, Val-Bélair. As a teenager, I worked at a convenience store and had the privilege of meeting several WWII veterans from the R22ER and the 2nd Canadian Division during the mid to late 2000s and early 2010s.
    One WWII veteran, who must have been well into his 80s or even 90s at the time-I never asked-would come in and sit with me at night until closing. He shared incredible tales of the Canadians on D-Day. You could almost see the horrors he witnessed in his eyes as he told the stories. I learned more from that single man than I ever could from any video or history class. I wish I had asked for his full name so I could honor him properly in this comment.
    Rest in power Bob and thank you for your service.

    • @QuitYoJibby-JabbinFool
      @QuitYoJibby-JabbinFool หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      This is the single greatest comment here. RIP Bob 🙏

    • @abelis644
      @abelis644 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You should write down his stories, don't let them disappear!!!

    • @HiimAbyss
      @HiimAbyss หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@abelis644 Its been over 10 years ago, my memory is working agaisnt me lol. I dont think i would be able to do it justice.

    • @HiimAbyss
      @HiimAbyss หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@abelis644 Maybe i will

    • @mr.jordwell9084
      @mr.jordwell9084 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hey Raise my glass to Bob! and thanks for taking nightmares so the rest of us can dream.

  • @Reapous
    @Reapous หลายเดือนก่อน +528

    A story I heard from the Devil's Brigade was during an operation where they had to scale a cliff/hill face, some members would slip and fall to their deaths. But instead of screaming, giving away their position during this covert mission, they just saluted and fell with silence into the depths below...
    Sounds like folklore, or tall-tales, but boy is it a good one.

    • @ralphvelthuis2359
      @ralphvelthuis2359 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Ive heard this was a true story.

    • @jeanlannes4396
      @jeanlannes4396 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      There is a similar story involving soldiers of Alexander the Great, while he was subduing the Sogdians in what is now Afghanistan.

    • @AnyEnglishWord
      @AnyEnglishWord หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      MY GRANDPA WAS IN THE DEVILS BRIGADEEEEE

    • @AnyEnglishWord
      @AnyEnglishWord หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@ralphvelthuis2359my grandpa was in the devils brigade

    • @HashknightGaming
      @HashknightGaming หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you love your boys, you don't make a sound.

  • @KwanzaaKalus
    @KwanzaaKalus หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    *Look up "best sniper shots in the world" and 3 of the top 10 are Canadian.* Up until recently, the top shot record was also Canadian for 6 years. Our military is under-funded, but lean. We don't have fancy kit, but our soldiers are tough as nails. We train them so hard that the weaker ones drop out due to rhabdomyolysis.

    • @UnlaunderedShirt
      @UnlaunderedShirt วันที่ผ่านมา

      Other NATO countries either send their troops to do SERE training in Canada under Canadian Forces, or contract our troops to go over there and train their special forces

    • @KwanzaaKalus
      @KwanzaaKalus วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@UnlaunderedShirt My buddy was in infantry and then transferred into intelligence, but while he was infantry, he told me that they would do exercises with Americans and a single Canadian platoon (30-40 dudes) would do circles around a American company (3 platoons, 100+ dudes). I don't like doing the "MY MILITARY IS BETTER THAN YOUR MILITARY" bullshit because it's no better than "MY DAD CAN BEAT UP YOUR DAD", but we have the numbers to back up Canadian military success with what little we have.

  • @Zhornax
    @Zhornax หลายเดือนก่อน +2580

    Canadians be like: "we're so sorry for being absolute killing machines".

    • @youngdenard264
      @youngdenard264 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Laugh in Operation Cottage

    • @kylemackinnon5696
      @kylemackinnon5696 หลายเดือนก่อน +92

      Peace time: sorry aboot that
      War time: yer aboot ta be sorry

    • @dillonoakes420
      @dillonoakes420 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      No we're not

    • @redline841
      @redline841 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Sounds like an insult lmao

    • @PilotLieutenant1
      @PilotLieutenant1 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Not sorry, sōrry.

  • @manks5491
    @manks5491 หลายเดือนก่อน +1148

    There's no in between with a Canadian. Either one of the nicest person you could come in contact with, or an absolute feral animal. Idk why we're like this but that's how Canadians are

    • @danb239
      @danb239 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

      Some of the nicest people are actually animals as well, you just don't want to piss them off.

    • @manks5491
      @manks5491 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@danb239 precisely

    • @zerospace101
      @zerospace101 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      Beware the quiet nice ones. They are the first to let that rage take over

    • @rally_chronicles
      @rally_chronicles หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@zerospace101😶😈

    • @Gabryal77
      @Gabryal77 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      We don't like bullies

  • @rlgmedia5364
    @rlgmedia5364 หลายเดือนก่อน +532

    My grandfather was in the Canadian army from 1915 to 1919. He told me how in the last weeks of the war when the German lines were collapsing and the allies would need to run to keep up with the retreating German. According to him the Germans would leave men behind to ambush the Canadians even though everyone knew the war was almost over. So when the ambushers ran out of ammo or nerve they would try to surrender. In my grandfather's words "we didn't take prisoners"

    • @guyperson754
      @guyperson754 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      I’m Canadian as well. Your grandfather was a madman but also a fucking hero. I cannot imagine the horrors he must have gone through in that time and still make it home.

    • @ACTUALLYRICH
      @ACTUALLYRICH หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      My great uncle was an officer in the war and grandfather a pilot based in Scotland flying for the CAF/RAF during ww2

    • @jknowlesphoto2498
      @jknowlesphoto2498 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That's when my grandfather was wounded by a sniper - chasing the Germans through Europe. He said they weren't even allowed to stop and help wounded civilians.

    • @FundyisleLegacy
      @FundyisleLegacy หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I remember hearing a story about prisoners, they had two train loads of German prisoners, but only one train and a river near by to dump half the bodies in

  • @vrylox
    @vrylox หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    0:44 so thats where trudeau gets it

    • @JoeRogansForehead
      @JoeRogansForehead หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I just said the same thing 😂 he was just cosplaying as a ww1 solider

    • @sanatan_07712
      @sanatan_07712 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      From castro 😅

    • @ddoherty5956
      @ddoherty5956 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      He's more of a tunnel rat if you know what I mean 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @jacrispy1141
      @jacrispy1141 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      He gets it from his cuban father

    • @Baldmelon
      @Baldmelon 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😂😂😂😂😂

  • @paddington1670
    @paddington1670 หลายเดือนก่อน +1473

    Dont forget, Canadians went further inland than any other army during the first D DAY landing, on the SECOND most difficult beach behind Omaha. The only country's army to complete their day one objectives.

    • @D-6106
      @D-6106 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We don’t like dying so if we make it so nobody wants to fight us we can stop mass death by simply joining the group chat as it were’

    • @Wataru-Endo-Dragon
      @Wataru-Endo-Dragon หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      We were also hitting the least fortified beach but ya it was pretty kewl

    • @drippylad3973
      @drippylad3973 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      ​@@Wataru-Endo-Dragon Canadian politeness

    • @IntrebuloN
      @IntrebuloN หลายเดือนก่อน +81

      @@Wataru-Endo-Dragon The video isn't really accurate anyways. Interviews with vets reveal we lost all our armour in the first hours and units got split up. Proceeded forward anyways forming ragtag squads using creative tactics and makeshift weapons to defeat enemy armour and emplacements. One vet in particular described run ins on foot with S.S units and over running them and catching officer posts off guard because of how quickly they proceeded forward.

    • @joemac4533
      @joemac4533 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A short 6 year war lol

  • @titojaeden
    @titojaeden หลายเดือนก่อน +1499

    Never ask a Woman about her age
    Never ask a man about his salary
    Never ask a survivng ww1 Canadian veteran what they did during WW1

    • @Jet-ij9zc
      @Jet-ij9zc หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      From the story told in this comment section it looks like a lot of them liked to talk about it lol

    • @lorpal1
      @lorpal1 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      WW1 vets would be over 100 years old…

    • @TooTallDean
      @TooTallDean หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      The last Canadian WW1 died several years ago

    • @walterholder6077
      @walterholder6077 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Or 2

    • @skybladebloodheart4247
      @skybladebloodheart4247 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      i think were out of those now actually.... last one died at the ripe old age of 109 in 2010

  • @Noob-Toast
    @Noob-Toast หลายเดือนก่อน +825

    People always forget that the second most deadly beach was Juno

    • @tacolord4209
      @tacolord4209 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Probably the deadliest for Germany, but german casualties were never counted for juno

    • @jballan
      @jballan หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      My great grandfather was shot in the face and just kept fighting, he thought it was only mud spray. Told us the story at thanksgiving in the early 2000s.

    • @Orthanderis
      @Orthanderis หลายเดือนก่อน +75

      It's also important to note that, not only was it the second deadliest beach, it was the only beach that had to deal with an elite SS tank regiment, and it's also the only beach that accomplished it's 1st day objectives.

    • @Brewskie86
      @Brewskie86 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      As everyone knows, the most deadly battle was the battle of Schrute farms.

    • @ryantron9
      @ryantron9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      If I recall, didn’t the Canadians actually drive into Juno beach too far and had to go back?

  • @FPVivid
    @FPVivid หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I think a lot of this is to do with Canada being Day 1 deployments in BOTH WW1 and WW2.. they fought the whole war.. i can see them being pictured as savages when they have multiple years under their belts by the time others joined

  • @jknowlesphoto2498
    @jknowlesphoto2498 หลายเดือนก่อน +779

    My Grandfather (Canadian) was shot by a sniper in WW2 as he drove a motorcycle in a convoy. He hit the tailgate of the truck in front of him and woke up days later in a military hospital. He told me once that when they found the sniper (in a ditch) he had dropped his rifle and was laughing maniacally. When I asked what they did with him, he looked genuinely surprised at the question and said flatly - "they shot him."

    • @pancakebuffalo.gaming
      @pancakebuffalo.gaming หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      I mean they're not lying, at the very end they DID shoot him, it's everything that happened between laughing and shooting that he left out 😂

    • @frontdoor3417
      @frontdoor3417 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Id give you a funny look too ngl lol

    • @DaveGIS123
      @DaveGIS123 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      Snipers are almost always killed, no matter what side they were on. Snipers are universally hated. If caught, they were usually treated "In the 'traditional' way..."

    • @metaford3746
      @metaford3746 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​​@@DaveGIS123yeah there even cases where if they spot the sniper location even if it only like one dude
      they would call in a airstrike instead of attemping to push torward him or counter snipe

    • @KellyTour-d9s
      @KellyTour-d9s หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I have a brilliant picture of my gramps riding a Harley(I think) through Germany.,Machine gun in one hand and a cig in the other.Covered in unmentionable muck.

  • @Super_Canadian
    @Super_Canadian หลายเดือนก่อน +606

    If it’s not Hockey season we gotta let all that pent up aggression out some how

    • @AgentDan
      @AgentDan หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Oh no

    • @HammerJammer81
      @HammerJammer81 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      Well WWII began just before Hockey Season, can you blame us?

    • @Super_Canadian
      @Super_Canadian หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@HammerJammer81 these yanks don’t understand hockey, it’s like if it’s not football or McDonalds season lmao

    • @silentstarproductions2469
      @silentstarproductions2469 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      THIS IS SO TRUE!

    • @PomaFan2
      @PomaFan2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fu*ckin right 👍

  • @etiennesharp
    @etiennesharp หลายเดือนก่อน +163

    Mike Myers: "Don't mistake civility for weakness. You do so at your peril"

  • @wendellswendell2001
    @wendellswendell2001 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Saskatchewan native here. We say "Quit when it's finished, not when you're tired"

    • @craigwilliams1900
      @craigwilliams1900 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Wendel Clark man I see, I upvote.

  • @Nick-mp1zh
    @Nick-mp1zh หลายเดือนก่อน +499

    There are three things all wise men fear. The sea at storm, a moonless night...
    And the anger of a gentle man

    • @Rafel_ll
      @Rafel_ll หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Kingkiller Chronicles? A man with taste I see...

    • @ZatralTMF
      @ZatralTMF หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Alternatively: "demons run when a good man goes to war"

    • @catalhuyuk7
      @catalhuyuk7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Should add, a woman’s scorn.

    • @Nick-mp1zh
      @Nick-mp1zh หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@catalhuyuk7 fair enough, my wife scares me more than most men I know.

    • @catalhuyuk7
      @catalhuyuk7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Nick-mp1zh
      I understand, I’m a Canadian woman. ♥️🇨🇦

  • @Goc4ever
    @Goc4ever หลายเดือนก่อน +227

    Well done Simple History, well done. The Canadians were often overlooked in history explanations and i'm so glad channels like you, Yarnhub, The Front and many others acknowledged their exploits in war time. Aside from their ruthlessness and efficiency as shock troops the Canadians made themselves known through acts of heroism like Léo Major who singlehandendly liberated the city of Zwolle and for being the most proactive in providing help for the Dutch and for giving sanctuary to the royal family of the Netherlands which led to the two countries to become close allies and friends.

    • @jakecannanite4558
      @jakecannanite4558 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      He's honestly one of the reasons the Dutch are so friendly to Canadians (and why Americans put Canadian flags on their backpacks)

    • @sommebuddy
      @sommebuddy หลายเดือนก่อน

      And Dieppe, where they lost the bulk of their force in a poorly led raid, or the advance to Caan, where their screwups allowed thousands of Germans to escape the Falaise pocket....be truthful about history.

    • @Da_Rivulet
      @Da_Rivulet หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yarnhub mentioned
      Day significantly improved

    • @ViratKumarSingh-zv6ey
      @ViratKumarSingh-zv6ey หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yarnhub rocks

    • @OTDMilitaryHistory
      @OTDMilitaryHistory หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There are Canadians out there telling our stories. Just saying.

  • @markorr999
    @markorr999 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    The First Special Service Force (Devils Brigade) was my uncle's unit. He won a Distinguished Service Cross.
    Orr, Ross, W.
    Staff Sergeant, Canadian Army
    Fifth Company, Second Regiment, Special Service Force
    Sate of Action: August 26, 1944
    Citation:
    The distinguished service cross is presented to Ross W. Orr, Staff Sergeant, Royal Canadian Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Villeneuve-Loubet France on August 26th, 1944. When the only route for urgently needed supplies was cut off by three enemy machine guns emplaced along the road, Staff Sergeant Orr, without orders, elected to remove this obstacle. After selecting three men to provide covering fire, he approached alone to within seventy-five yards of the first gun. Armed with a submachine gun, he jumped into the middle of the road and demanded surrender. The enemy gunner immediately opened fire on him, but Staff sergeant Orr stood his ground and seriously wounded both of the crew with effective fire. Under continued assault by this four-man team, the other two machine gun crews finally surrendered, and the road was opened for desperately needed supplies. Soon afterward the fifth company occupied a castle on a hilltop to protect this supply route and Sergeant Orr immediately organized the area against counterattack. The enemy, two hundred strong, strove continuously and fiercely to dislodge his group from this stronghold. In the face of death-defying circumstances, Sergeant Orr with his submachine gun put an enemy machine gun which was covering an approaching demolition party out of action. The demolition party was dispersed with heavy losses by rifle fire and hand grenades effectively used under Sergeant Orr’s direction. In another similar counterattack, Sergeant Orr fired his submachine gun from a blazing barn into an attacking enemy formation. This attack was broken up and resulted in heavy losses to the enemy. Approximately one hundred fifty enemy losses were sustained during the day. A great many of these casualties were inflicted by Sergeant Orr and his platoon. His superb leadership and inspiring personal example throughout the battle were a major contributory factor in the destruction of the enemy defense line that seriously threatened to delay the advance of the entire regiment.

    • @BrookieMacc
      @BrookieMacc หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That’s incredibly badass, glad I spent the time reading all that lol

    • @infinitrixgaming4705
      @infinitrixgaming4705 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It's thanks to heroes like that that we can live the life we are living right now, I hope he have and had a great life after the war! It's sad that we do not talk more about the war heroes of our own country and how they affected the way we can live now.

  • @alg94
    @alg94 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    my grandfather was deployed on Juno beach on d-day. his name is included in a memorial nearby. visiting the memorial and seeing where he fought was a surreal experience when I was a teenager. he survived World War II, had 6 children and 11 grand children before he passed in 2007. he was a cool guy

  • @kayleavansolkema8752
    @kayleavansolkema8752 หลายเดือนก่อน +293

    My grandfather fought in WWII. He lied about his age and joined the airforce at 16. At 18 he was in a plane that somehow had something on fire on the wing. They were flying somewhere towards England. He CLIMBED OUT OF THE PLANE and ONTO THE WING mid flight and kicked the burning thing off and stopped the fire, then returned to his position. He told other stories too, but this one happened to be a big deal and the Montreal Gazette even published an article about it!
    Edit - I called my dad and he elaborated: a light exploded inside the plane and landed on the gas tank. Grandad kicked it off the gas tank but it was still in the fuselage. He somehow got it out, but the side of the fuselage was on fire. At this point he was using a fire extinguisher on the flames on the fuselage, hanging out of the body of the aircraft. The article was called 'Ahuntsic Flier Proves Heroic' - 1940 publication.

    • @ma77bc
      @ma77bc หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      I had a neighbor who also lied about his age to join the Air Force. He was a gunner, and luckily never needed to fire his guns. The one time he was going to fire his gun, it jammed... Which turned out to be a good thing, since the plane he was going to fire at was an ally, not the enemy. We only knew him for a couple years, but my dad used to go over almost every night to hang out with him, share a beer and listen to his stories. When my dad would walk into his house, he'd already have a beer waiting for him. He died at age of 92.

    • @rainyee-pc5lf
      @rainyee-pc5lf หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      do you know what the article is called?

    • @graceyjewels7148
      @graceyjewels7148 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Talk about badass and brave! I guess you do what you need to do to live but that’s impressive!

    • @chad1755
      @chad1755 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      No disrespect, but that did not happen. You can't climb onto a smooth wing with a 200mph wind pushing you off.

    • @wilholmrykes6589
      @wilholmrykes6589 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@chad1755Seconded. Unless you were harnessed to the plane in some way, you’d be blown right off the wing and, die. This is clearly just a tall tale.

  • @bredsheeran2897
    @bredsheeran2897 หลายเดือนก่อน +517

    “Geneva Conventions” ❌
    “Canadian and Polish Convention for the Safety of Others During War” ✅

    • @ethanor
      @ethanor หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Geneva Checklist

    • @northamericanintercontinen3207
      @northamericanintercontinen3207 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@ethanorchecklist ? THEN HOW THE HECK DO WE ADD THE NEW STUFF ? (Mexican ready to dish it out)
      Like waterboarding with live hand grenades

    • @PlanetJohnny
      @PlanetJohnny หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      In Canada, it's the Geneva Leaderboard.

    • @BloonHero666
      @BloonHero666 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      *Geneva Recommendations

  • @VilleKristian-qj8fx
    @VilleKristian-qj8fx หลายเดือนก่อน +1223

    "Remember no prisoners they will eat your rations"is wild 💀

    • @TheDeadEyeSamurai
      @TheDeadEyeSamurai หลายเดือนก่อน +150

      "You'll have to share your poutine and Maple syrup."
      "I'll require all their blood in return."

    • @kithkindeck
      @kithkindeck หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      @@TheDeadEyeSamurai Look man, if we only have enough syrup for one pancake, I'm eating that pancake or I'm eating you. That syrup is making its way into my body one way or another.

    • @shorgoth
      @shorgoth หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      You have to consider that our supply lines were across the atlantic and we got no help from France and Britain to take care of that and we were a much less industrialized country than the USA.

    • @The_Foxy2039
      @The_Foxy2039 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@kithkindeckas a Canadian, I approve this message

    • @djangel3108
      @djangel3108 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      ​@@sommebuddy As a Canadian who has ate and enjoyed Poutine several times, what?

  • @ConfusedWonkie
    @ConfusedWonkie 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I was born and raised in Canada, I think it’s more like we enjoy the happy warm days with family and friends but if you break the peace then you have made us get up from our warm cozy lives… may God have mercy on you. We do not forget

  • @mr.unoriginal5674
    @mr.unoriginal5674 หลายเดือนก่อน +1050

    Side note though my great great grandfather said “we were there to do a job and it was to kill not make friends..”
    Edit jeez 914 likes that’s more than I thought I’d get thanks!

    • @Cuz.im.batman
      @Cuz.im.batman หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      And now the Germans are our allies aka "friends" 🌈

    • @onelowvdub
      @onelowvdub หลายเดือนก่อน

      but if needed we can flip the narrative ​@@Cuz.im.batman

    • @peter9477
      @peter9477 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@Cuz.im.batman but without the quotation marks.

    • @Cuz.im.batman
      @Cuz.im.batman หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@peter9477 nah we'll always have an eye on them

    • @ummoof7069
      @ummoof7069 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Cuz.im.batman Don't need to, they are owned just like the rest of us, that was the whole point of ww2 to bring Germany back under the heel of the internationalist, the only people keeping an eye on them are politicians and the same goes for us which is why we see outsiders flooding our lands and a massive drop in intelligence and masculinity so we could never revolt against those who seek to replace us lol

  • @Dreamer66617
    @Dreamer66617 หลายเดือนก่อน +237

    my grandfather drove a tank into D-day. he was an Olympic athlete and a black belt. When he had a heart attack he tried to fight the first responders, they had to tie him to the stretcher with sweaters. Absolute maniac. Loved that man so much. Yet he taught me all about baking and cooking...

  • @silentstarproductions2469
    @silentstarproductions2469 หลายเดือนก่อน +194

    As a Canadian, this might be my new favourite Simple History video!

    • @DarthJarJar_542
      @DarthJarJar_542 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Same here

    • @KMDragonS
      @KMDragonS หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      🇨🇦 Here here

    • @thewafflegamer6152
      @thewafflegamer6152 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      same over here

    • @etherealessence
      @etherealessence หลายเดือนก่อน

      War crimes? Or were we just so good at war that they made it illegal? You decide.

    • @uberschnilthegreat22
      @uberschnilthegreat22 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Canadian gang

  • @keithbezanson1990
    @keithbezanson1990 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Great uncle Herb Pepper from Truro NS was part of the first devils..... R.I.P passed away in 2018 I do belive at age 98

  • @prodigaldog2747
    @prodigaldog2747 หลายเดือนก่อน +292

    You forgot about Leo Major, who liberated the town of Zwolle single handedly, he captured 93 germans on his own. He was mad cause his friend died. One of 3 people who got the Distinguished service medal in 2 seperate wars

    • @Xerxes7695
      @Xerxes7695 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Bro sounds like a Rimworld character.

    • @watermeloneatergaming
      @watermeloneatergaming หลายเดือนก่อน

      They did a whole video on that guy before th-cam.com/video/eFf1UfVa8Lc/w-d-xo.html

    • @skurt258
      @skurt258 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      ​@Xerxes7695 it gets better... he lost his eye in the war and wore an eyepatch because "It makes me look cooler"... he broke his back, both ankles, and a few ribs and was put in a military hospital and told he was going to be discharged... where he proceeded to sneak out of the hospital and lived with a dutch family for a week... he then rejoined his battalion and volunteered to scout the city if Zwolle with his friend... which is when his friend was killed and he proceeded to take the entire city single handedly by using grenades to fake mortarfire and multiple stolen guns to fake reinforcements, all to inflict terror on the german soldiers... by the morning there were no german soldiers left in town... they all either died or fled in fear thinking the entire canadian army was storming the town...

    • @Mr.Anders0n_
      @Mr.Anders0n_ หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@skurt258he was going to head to Berlin to capture it as well but he had run out of cigarettes... Aren't you confusing him with Rambo?

    • @Stingzay_y
      @Stingzay_y หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Mr.Anders0n_ Rambo is nothing compared to him

  • @ArchonKain
    @ArchonKain หลายเดือนก่อน +162

    Great granddad was a pilot, had horrible PTSD but he flew 93 missions and came out of every single one of them with multiple takedowns and confirmed, took out German train supply lines.
    He died of old age on Canadian soil, what he did was nothing short of incredible, but I wouldn't wish any human walk in his shoes, he told my grandma that he had to just forget about having friend "The next time you'll see them, they'll probably be a smoke trail headed towards the ground" cannot imagine the mental torment like that.

    • @logarithmic7
      @logarithmic7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Grandpa saw the irony of terminating 36 supply trains only to end up surviving a deadly train crash in Canada 44 years later. As he jumped from the twisted flaming railcar, the only thing that broke his fall was a massive pile of wheat ironically in which he'd spend farming in SK post the ww2.

    • @alexlupei1228
      @alexlupei1228 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Maybe it wasn't irony - maybe it was your grandpa's Maker talking to him. As in: yes he took many lives... but then he spent the rest of his life growing living things (plants of wheat), which keep people alive (people gotta eat).
      Maybe he was given a second chance and also was shown why, at the same time

  • @matthewrooke819
    @matthewrooke819 หลายเดือนก่อน +299

    It makes so much sense now why Wolverine and Deadpool are both Canadians.

    • @matthewcao2279
      @matthewcao2279 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Isn’t Wolverine Australian?

    • @miguelsuarez1842
      @miguelsuarez1842 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@matthewcao2279actor yes - Comic book Lore no

    • @NowYaKnow965
      @NowYaKnow965 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@matthewcao2279He's from a small town in the middle of nowhere. Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada.

    • @zdvxr
      @zdvxr หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@matthewcao2279Wolverine is from northern Alberta and Deadpool is from Regina.

    • @joshwall6960
      @joshwall6960 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ha cold lake of all places ​@NowYaKnow965

  • @Jknight416
    @Jknight416 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    7:01 Anyone noticed how that Piat in that Canadian’s hands suddenly magically transformed into a rifle the moment he started walking?

  • @juice6199
    @juice6199 หลายเดือนก่อน +173

    Theres an anger that comes with being kind and patient most of the time.

    • @TLHockeyCards
      @TLHockeyCards หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Facts

    • @AegixDrakan
      @AegixDrakan หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      "Demons run when a good man goes to war" is the saying. Because when a patient and polite person snaps, they can go several bridges too far.

    • @mr.jordwell9084
      @mr.jordwell9084 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Or when Hockey is over... and you ran out of maple syrup

    • @joshjonson2368
      @joshjonson2368 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So kind they're giving their own population assisted suicide while moving in millions of indians 😂

  • @Unwise-
    @Unwise- หลายเดือนก่อน +153

    I'm a Canadian with many great uncles and a couple of grandfathers that fought in "The War" with stories of even more from the first. What I heard is that Canadian troops may have been less merciful because they were so far from home. They were among the first from overseas to fight in Europe, soon after UK in both wars, and it was a faraway exotic place for early 20th Century young men. There was no going "home" on leave, not until after the war was over, some were there for years on end unlike many of their British allies. Plus they were often used as cannon fodder on the front lines. They basically wanted to end the war ASAP and many weren't ready to take breaks or indulge in the niceties of civility in war that was en-vogue in Europe. Some of them may not have had the same gentlemanly aspirations although certainly a minority went as far as commit war crimes.

    • @gabrielgboucher6546
      @gabrielgboucher6546 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And people from farm and I talk from experience are juggernaut in terms of strength this makes them killing machine with all in one.

    • @jaquigreenlees
      @jaquigreenlees หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@gabrielgboucher6546 well du-uh, the work day starts before sunrise and ends at sunset, there is no weekend or holiday time. Life on a farm pre wwII was manual labour until the job was done. Take that work ethic in a work hardened body and give them the job of killing enemy troops, you have the perfect base for a terrifying trooper being given the weapons and job to kill enemies.
      Growing up on a pig farm, if we weren't in school we were either feeding / watering the pigs or shovelling the pig crap from dawn to dusk.

  • @BenKuyt64
    @BenKuyt64 หลายเดือนก่อน +116

    So back in high school, I had the chance to speak to a number of WW2 veterans (This was 2011, there was thankfully a large population of them in Canada still). When asked what it was like, the consensus feeling was they were doing a job as well as they could to just make it back home. One of them said "The other guys were doing the same, but we did our job better."

  • @Andrew-gn9qp
    @Andrew-gn9qp หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Canada in World War II was English Protestant with a French Catholic minority, a loyal British dominion, with one of the largest navy on Earth. Canada today is not the same.

  • @osseo9947
    @osseo9947 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    My Grandfather (Canadian) was involved in Dieppe as an engineer, he avoided conversations about the war and stated it wasn't anything to brag or be proud about.

  • @Koalalover70
    @Koalalover70 หลายเดือนก่อน +442

    As a Canadian I can confirm that we go berserk

    • @Nemy_Pred
      @Nemy_Pred หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I concur.

    • @stuartpostma8244
      @stuartpostma8244 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      This Canadian can confirm this

    • @EPICtimPogwater
      @EPICtimPogwater หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      So real

    • @youngdenard264
      @youngdenard264 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Quebec dude are the fighter,Anglo are the femboy who shoot each others

    • @markbrown9558
      @markbrown9558 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Canadian and going beserk on this comment.

  • @NoobZxReviewZ
    @NoobZxReviewZ หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    My grandad William "Sam" Magee was a veteran of the Devils Brigade. He fought on Monte La Difensa and used to tell me stories about it (with some details removed like slitting throats and killing people). Major thank you to this channel for giving his unit its well deserved props.

  • @Chase4296
    @Chase4296 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    “bro u wanna celebrate Christmas with us?”
    Canada *”So you have chosen death?”*

    • @drkilledbydeath87
      @drkilledbydeath87 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "here's a present for ya, bud! And no worries, it opens itself!"

  • @adamleblanc5294
    @adamleblanc5294 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

    The main reason Canadians got a reputation for not taking prisoners, particularly at Vimy Ridge, was because they were often the first wave to reach the enemy lines. It was often impossible for them to actually take prisoners, because when one group of Germans were trying to surrender, there would be another a couple hundred meters away still shooting at them. In those types of situations, it's impossible to actually safely take a POW.

    • @gung2549
      @gung2549 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As a Canadian if I was forced to fight for some euros I wouldn't take prisoners either. Would never give my life for Europeans though

    • @yermom014
      @yermom014 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@gung2549 There wasn't any forcing, Canadians were still quite loyal to the UK and saw it as an obligation.

  • @ovskii96
    @ovskii96 หลายเดือนก่อน +228

    Canuck here. Early on in WWI, Canadians had to dig their trenches mostly with their hands because the shovels they were sent *had a giant hole in the middle* (the shovel heads were supposed to be used as "rifle shields", but were useless as shovels and shields). So yeah, the Canadians were *very pissy* after this.

    • @EeveetoUmbreon25
      @EeveetoUmbreon25 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      "I spent 6 hours digging this trench with my bare hands, im not letting someone take it from me"

    • @alphaallnightgaming7885
      @alphaallnightgaming7885 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      That’s a cruel joke lol, “ here! We’ve got these brand new shovels to dig trenches, we put a hole in them so they’d be more useful!” Lmaooo

    • @ovskii96
      @ovskii96 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​​​@@alphaallnightgaming7885It actually was. A lot of historians think the Shield-Shovel was a money-making scheme at the expense of the soldiers, because the shovels had no practical use besides breaking up dirt for hand-scooping.

    • @TuberTugger
      @TuberTugger หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@EeveetoUmbreon25 You want me to dig a trench with my bare hands? I'll take their trench instead, with my bare hands.

    • @FPVivid
      @FPVivid หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      the MacAdam shovel! th-cam.com/video/qvuZf4v4MLU/w-d-xo.html

  • @fatherobama7658
    @fatherobama7658 หลายเดือนก่อน +162

    We say sorry now so we don’t need to do it later.

    • @288theabe
      @288theabe หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Pre-emptive sorry 😂😂

    • @Cuz.im.batman
      @Cuz.im.batman หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We've been apologizing for almost 80 years... when does it end.

    • @mzdtmp2
      @mzdtmp2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Don't lie, ya'll say "sore-ey", not sorry. 😋

  • @nicholas8228
    @nicholas8228 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    As a Canadian veteran I’d say one of the biggest stories that could describe our tenacity is the story of Leo Major
    Look up “the one eyed scout who liberated a whole town by himself” if you are interested

    • @CaeridLock.
      @CaeridLock. 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

      David currie, Aubrey cosens, smokey Smith, George topham, tons of real stand up gents out there

    • @JayLee-od8ob
      @JayLee-od8ob 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Plenty of bayonet charge stories of little or no ammunition remaining. Stories of popularizing cqc with shotguns and crude hand tools. Very sad stories mostly.

  • @DPCP-h9u
    @DPCP-h9u หลายเดือนก่อน +386

    Canadians in peace:
    "Lovely morning, eh?"
    Canadians during war:
    "PEACE WAS OPTIONAL! AND SO WAS MY MERCY!"

    • @cyber1ifeconnor
      @cyber1ifeconnor หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Bro 😂 thats so good!

    • @bluenine85
      @bluenine85 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE, PANCAKES FOR THE PANCAKE STACK

    • @Elemblue2
      @Elemblue2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      You can only afford to be nice if you can pay the toll. The toll is the opposite.

    • @wcjerky
      @wcjerky หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      "Lovely mourning in the morning, eh?"

    • @mr.jordwell9084
      @mr.jordwell9084 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@bluenine85 Guardsman: CADIA STANDS!
      Canadian Soldiers: CANADIA LAUGHS!!! ... wait... Major are supposed to take prisonners.
      Major: You keep it, you feed it!
      Canadian Soldiers: No one.. NO ONE TOUCHES MY MAPLE SYRUP!!!

  • @alexanderleach3365
    @alexanderleach3365 หลายเดือนก่อน +2414

    In war, always respect the Canadians.

    • @Trenchslammer5
      @Trenchslammer5 หลายเดือนก่อน +123

      Cause if you don’t, they’re gonna use your blood as maple syrup

    • @eaglewarrior7979
      @eaglewarrior7979 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      Not anymore they’ve gotten soft. Same thing with America or any western country

    • @GamerFrisco
      @GamerFrisco หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Why?

    • @Ufgbja
      @Ufgbja หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      @@eaglewarrior7979 wanna go to war with em?

    • @Bundysvideos
      @Bundysvideos หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@eaglewarrior7979hi Putin puppet

  • @bblvrable
    @bblvrable หลายเดือนก่อน +284

    You don't go undefeated in war by playing by 'rules'. You go undefeated in war by making your enemies fear you more than death itself.

    • @Gameprojordan
      @Gameprojordan หลายเดือนก่อน

      What an ignorant statement that psychopaths have used time and time again through history to justify their attrocities. I guess you support the Mai lai massacre in Vietnam since that was a shock and awe tactic to scare the enemy except it resulted in an entire village of innocent people being wiped off the face of earth

    • @runner3033
      @runner3033 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      There's only one rule in war - don't lose.

    • @darkspire6666
      @darkspire6666 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Well said eh

    • @JohnYourMama
      @JohnYourMama หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      you win by completing the geneva to do list

    • @Bumblebee2361
      @Bumblebee2361 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And that's how you get charged for war crimes.

  • @Jett-jbk
    @Jett-jbk หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    love seeing people talking about our country!

  • @iyam7852
    @iyam7852 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

    Its like that one friend that is super kind but not to be messed with when mad

    • @LAB3NTLEY
      @LAB3NTLEY หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🤣🤣

    • @everybody48
      @everybody48 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      as a Canadian i am that friend

    • @catalhuyuk7
      @catalhuyuk7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think our rage is just below the surface waiting patiently for a chance to escape. ♥️🇨🇦

    • @TuberTugger
      @TuberTugger หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm not polite because I'm nice. I'm polite because you damn well also be polite.

  • @Karen-p9t5g
    @Karen-p9t5g หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    Independent thinkers. The crazy thing so many of our soldiers were in their mid teens, not hardened men.
    A lady friend of my mother was a 15 year old prairie girl, she volunteered to help. Declined she took a train to Montreal, was declined again. Worked on a ship to England, offered again to work, this time she lied about her age. She was accepted to drive ambulance in France on the front. Survived the war, was a total force to be reckoned with.

    • @VojvodaSloboda
      @VojvodaSloboda หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I got a few names for you which you might find interesting to learn about.
      -Milunka Savic. Most decorated female soldier in history, achieved in ww1.
      -Dragoljub Jelicic. Child soldier who was awarded the rank of Lance Corporal at 14 years old by the King himself.
      -Momcilo Gavric. Corporal at 8 years old, Awarded by Legendary Field Marshall Misic.

    • @brendensangster3571
      @brendensangster3571 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My dad was from a farm town in rural Ontario lied about his age at 15 and joined the infantry. I grew up in Bew Brunswick hard military and joined aswell. Definitely repressed anger in. My whole family haha.

  • @idkidk2459
    @idkidk2459 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    You had me at brass knuckles. That has to be the most badass wartime weapon ever. Especially when the enemies have firearms.

    • @TuberTugger
      @TuberTugger หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Lefty and Righty never run out of bullets and never jam.

  • @williamschweitzer6910
    @williamschweitzer6910 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It's our way of relieving the stress of being polite all the time.

  • @marcleslac2413
    @marcleslac2413 หลายเดือนก่อน +937

    Canada in peace: sorry, to hit you, no im sorry.
    Canada in war: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLLLLAAAKKKESSSS!!!

    • @dcamaro0173
      @dcamaro0173 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

      Valid point also to add Canada in peace "hello how are you? What a fine day"
      Canada in war: "pave my path with corpses, build my castle with bones"

    • @thesnowmexican763
      @thesnowmexican763 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      Historically accurate, Canada believed in Chaos before GW made it cool

    • @ZagstrakEadSmasha
      @ZagstrakEadSmasha หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      We'z are more Orks den Spikie boyz as we enjoy krumpin gitz wif big dakka and krumping gitz in da funniest ways possible. WAAAAAAAAGH!

    • @marcleslac2413
      @marcleslac2413 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thesnowmexican763 if nato article 5 happens, eastern european nato members and canada itself are the most likely to summon khorne demons

    • @notsure6915
      @notsure6915 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Aksho kharneth akhash

  • @fdgod1931
    @fdgod1931 หลายเดือนก่อน +328

    Just like the people France in a Revolution you don’t mess with Canadians in War.

    • @Ironknuckle100
      @Ironknuckle100 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      French people fighting other people = hello kitty.
      French people fighting other French people = the expendables.
      -Heavenly Father

    • @fdgod1931
      @fdgod1931 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Ironknuckle100 i was waiting for that reference.

    • @Ironknuckle100
      @Ironknuckle100 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@fdgod1931 happy to oblige.

    • @youngdenard264
      @youngdenard264 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Ironknuckle100you should learn about the “Furia Francese”

    • @Ironknuckle100
      @Ironknuckle100 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@youngdenard264 I tried googling it but all I got was the meaning of the words individually. Fury and belonging to France. I think. Ok what’s it about?

  • @inputnamehere1
    @inputnamehere1 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    My uncle visited France often in the 70s and the 80s, and he would regularly drink for free or have his restaurant tab taken care of when an old timer heard his French Canadian accent because a lot of them knew someone that was rescued by our people in WW2, if not themselves.

    • @eastvandb
      @eastvandb หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah, my father did his post-doctorate in the Netherlands in the 50s. He was sometimes embarrassed to say he was Canadian because everyone would insist on buying him drinks. (He missed the draft by six or seven months, so he had not been there during the war.)

  • @TheWolfsnack
    @TheWolfsnack 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Good stuff....I had several conversations over thirty years back with a older native fellow in a British Columbia Legion...he was a former Black Devil who fought in N Africa, then through Italy and into France....

  • @mayththemyth
    @mayththemyth หลายเดือนก่อน +165

    The fact you didnt mention Leo Major is criminal

    • @gagestandingready1472
      @gagestandingready1472 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Nobody would believe it lol!!

    • @InterventionIV
      @InterventionIV หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Leo major was WW2

    • @gagestandingready1472
      @gagestandingready1472 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@InterventionIV Didn't watch the whole video huh?

    • @jasompinard4576
      @jasompinard4576 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      The deadliest sniper in WW1, Francis Pegamegabow. Survives the war with over 400 confirmed kills. The guy was a legend

    • @christianlapierre9155
      @christianlapierre9155 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Or the "Van doos" 😉

  • @uberreaktor4836
    @uberreaktor4836 หลายเดือนก่อน +214

    They usually transfer their anger and hatred to the geese.
    Bit problematic to do that when you're overseas.

    • @hamaljay
      @hamaljay หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Cobra chickens.

    • @LM-oi3sf
      @LM-oi3sf หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      The only crime against humanity we would never commit is unleashing our geese on the enemy.

    • @mikeramone003
      @mikeramone003 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Release the Geese!

    • @isabelleblanchet3694
      @isabelleblanchet3694 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LM-oi3sf The attack cobra chicken are way too dangerous for the world. We like to keep them secret, as our ultimate weapon.

    • @LM-oi3sf
      @LM-oi3sf หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@isabelleblanchet3694 We occasionally use them as anti aircraft weapons, but no-one suspects a thing, shhhh

  • @PelsckoPolesko
    @PelsckoPolesko หลายเดือนก่อน +540

    Don’t forget that most Canadians were fighting as brothers and fathers, family members seeing each other die to German machine gun fire, that also fueled their vengeance

    • @thesolargamer9751
      @thesolargamer9751 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      especially in the maritime provinces (nova scotia New Brunswick etc)

    • @FKamau
      @FKamau หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      That explains a lot.

    • @Frostfirerotation
      @Frostfirerotation หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Aaaaand what did you think half the of the German conscripts were?

    • @PelsckoPolesko
      @PelsckoPolesko หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Frostfirerotation obviously brothers and fathers. I never said they weren’t?

    • @Frostfirerotation
      @Frostfirerotation หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@PelsckoPolesko So the real question is, why didn't the Germans act the same way then? Considering they're utterly vilified in every other instance.

  • @kburton1651
    @kburton1651 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    4:52 HEY I HEARD ABOUT THIS ONE BEFORE!! 😮

  • @zacharygriffin2041
    @zacharygriffin2041 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    You should have mentioned the Battle of Dieppe, the precursor to D-Day. Despite heavy casualties and an overall failure, some Canadian units actually achieved their objective. Without the lessons learned at Dieppe the allies wouldn’t have properly prepared for D-Day. I mean Dieppe deserves its own video.

    • @smithy86
      @smithy86 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      My grandpa fought in dieppe one of the lucky few to escape, then later fought on Juno and went on until the end of the war

    • @MrDiddlebug
      @MrDiddlebug หลายเดือนก่อน

      The crappy part was that the entire thing was basically a test run, and Canadians were once again picked to be the Guinea pigs. I can somewhat understand why, because Canadian ground troops hadn't really done as much up until then (unlike the RCAF), but it does make us feel a bit like an afterthought, eh? Ah, colonials.

    • @OTDMilitaryHistory
      @OTDMilitaryHistory หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@smithy86 Did he move from a 2nd Division unit to a 3rd Division one? That would have had been the case for that to happen.

  • @richardshort3914
    @richardshort3914 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    For about the 10th time I compliment your weapons advisor for his accuracy.
    At 1:41 you show a No. 3 Ross rifle fitted with a scope. They had been withdrawn from service due to susceptibility to jamming caused by the muck of the battlefield, but were the preferred weapon of Canadian snipers due to their outstanding accuracy.

    • @Pyromania717
      @Pyromania717 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Fun fact: one of those snipers, Francis Pegahmagabow, was the deadliest sniper of WWI, ranks as the 3rd deadliest sniper in history, and was the most highly decorated aboriginal soldier in Canadian history

    • @theodorebricker7492
      @theodorebricker7492 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@Pyromania717 The Ghost in the Trenches!

    • @adamscott7354
      @adamscott7354 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Pyromania717 3 Day Road

    • @troystevens1976
      @troystevens1976 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I learned to shoot with one of these guns. The recoil feels like a sledgehammer and every other gun I’ve fired since feels like a shoulder tap in comparison.

    • @badgermacleod5588
      @badgermacleod5588 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Ross was fine on the range, but in service it was terrible rifle. It was quickly replaced by the Lee Enfield.

  • @michiganmafia
    @michiganmafia หลายเดือนก่อน +136

    Heres a shocker, people who grow up and live in a rough environment and work hard to survive tend to make good soldiers. Obviously this doesnt apply to most modern Canucks, or Americans, but back then people had to work a lot harder in general, even in a nice climate

    • @fastestdino2
      @fastestdino2 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I agree for sure with people who live in our cities (cough cough Toronto/Montreal/Ottawa). I think our rural areas and smaller cities have a lot stronger people and natural fervor though.

    • @michiganmafia
      @michiganmafia หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@fastestdino2 For sure, Im a born and raised farm boy, and I have respect for anyone who knows the true meaning of a hard days work

    • @ChristopherLaHaise
      @ChristopherLaHaise หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      We still have JTF-2, the elite squad that the Navy SEALS defer to in war.

    • @jasonbrisco
      @jasonbrisco หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Rural reserve units, to this day, out perform urban units...

    • @Ayden-vi1io
      @Ayden-vi1io หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why tf you throwing shade at Americans?

  • @atealab6152
    @atealab6152 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thank you Solid Snake for the history lesson.

  • @robertreid9720
    @robertreid9720 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Germans: What are you, special forces?
    Canadian: No, im just an outdoor enthusiast.

    • @mr.jordwell9084
      @mr.jordwell9084 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Canada: is that an intervention UN?
      UN: No, it's a convention... the Geneva Convention. You got to stop those war crimes.
      Canada: Geneva what now? *Stabs a German prisoner*

  • @VigilanteAgumon
    @VigilanteAgumon หลายเดือนก่อน +759

    You also have to remember that Canadians (as British North Americans) managed to set Washington D.C. on fire during the War of 1812.

    • @Daniel2k25
      @Daniel2k25 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I was reading about this lately and if I recollect / understand correctly there was a huge element of British distracting in this instance and it was not Canadian ingenuity or force alone that got them there.

    • @Daniel2k25
      @Daniel2k25 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      also, Canada obviously did not exist and saying it's Canada is disingenuous
      with that in mind
      I have heard a large number of New Brunswickers even, who may have technically been Nova Scotians at the time, travelled by walking to take part

    • @danb239
      @danb239 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      ​@@Daniel2k25Canada wasn't a country until 1867 and was a colony so of course it was considered the British.

    • @ChineseChicken1
      @ChineseChicken1 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That very night a hurricane came through and put the fires out as well as scattering the British Army.

    • @cyber1ifeconnor
      @cyber1ifeconnor หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      ​@@ChineseChicken1so only the forces of nature could hold them? Cool 😂

  • @Atlas79115
    @Atlas79115 หลายเดือนก่อน +339

    This is why I found it hilarious when Obama famously said " I don't find Canadians to be particularly scary." He is obviously not a student of history. There's a reason why they are polite most of the time, because when it's time to go to war all that pent up rage can finally be released. Mistaking kindness for weakness is the gist of it.

    • @buckodonnghaile4309
      @buckodonnghaile4309 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Canadians of today are a far cry from their ancestors. The odds of suburban and urban Ontario or B.C youth taking up arms to defend their nation is laughable. There are no arms anyway.

    • @ryyzan3055
      @ryyzan3055 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I find it funny how you’re obsessed with Obama enough to mention him on a video about Canada, a whole eight years after he left office. Like you’re obsessed fam. You ok??

    • @Thalanox
      @Thalanox หลายเดือนก่อน +70

      ​@@ryyzan3055 He's one of the most recent three presidents of our neighbors down south. Why should he be considered an irrelevant cultural measurement stick?

    • @toaster3822
      @toaster3822 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He is an idiot

    • @idrinkbreastmilk2883
      @idrinkbreastmilk2883 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ryyzan3055he holds the record for most bombs dropped on Syria and won the noble piece price somehow

  • @parvish6960
    @parvish6960 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Europa: The Last Battle is the best WW2 documentary ever. Heavily censored.

  • @Chr1s-fm6bi
    @Chr1s-fm6bi หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    You need to read about Leo Major. He was John Wick’s grandpa.

    • @gavinl1565
      @gavinl1565 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      They already did a video on him.

  • @dancampbell189
    @dancampbell189 หลายเดือนก่อน +224

    You've got a country where it snows half the year, every settlement is remote, and most of it is less than two generations from being hewn out of the wilderness.
    Then you take all the boys from the farms, mines, logging camps, and indigenous reserves, send them thousands of miles from home, throw them into a muddy ditch, and tell them "When all the guys in that ditch over there are dead, you get to go home."
    What else did you expect?

    • @sourloaf
      @sourloaf หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      > every settlement is remote
      What? Canada has several major cities. Toronto is the 4th largest city by population in North America, Montreal the 9th, Calgary the 19th, Edmonton the 26th, Ottawa the 29th. 90% of Canadians live within 160 kms of the US border. The vast majority of us aren't living in remote wilderness.
      > most of it is less than two generations from being hewn out of the wilderness
      Again, what? Two generations is 20 to 30 years ago. Canada became a country 157 years ago with colonies predating that by centuries.
      You got the snow right at least.

    • @dancampbell189
      @dancampbell189 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@sourloaf - How did you miss the references to trench warfare? Obviously I'm describing conditions during the Great War

    • @SmallScreenCo
      @SmallScreenCo หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@dancampbell189 Your comment invoked the time of The Great War no problem. I don't know how Sourloaf missed it unless they just read the first sentence, got excited to correct you and didn't finish reading.

    • @ak-gp6ug
      @ak-gp6ug หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@sourloaf now. this was a 100 years ago buddy

    • @blackwavearcade3ms
      @blackwavearcade3ms หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      lol what?

  • @PublisherGatineauHills
    @PublisherGatineauHills 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Canadian here. I think the reason is because we just want to get it over with so we can get back to living our lives.

  • @alex25425
    @alex25425 หลายเดือนก่อน +146

    My history teacher thaught us that a lot of the Canadian intensity came from the fact that we got roped by force in this conflict, and most Canadian didn't care at all about Europe, so being forced into a war you don't care, in a place you don't care, fighting people you don't care about (comparatively to, say French and Germans, who were basically neighbors, had relatives across the border, etc.), and away from you home, familly and dreams, the Canadian soldier basically said: "I don't care how we have to do it, but we'll make sure this war is quick so we can go back to our side of the Atlantic.
    As to the validity of this, no idea, but I can understand the sentiment, so I'd think it's plausible

    • @wesker911
      @wesker911 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Can confirm, we don't like getting swept up in others stupidity. We deal with a lot of our own.

    • @MrChit-od9po
      @MrChit-od9po หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Im Canadian and never heard that, I'll keep an eye out for your theroy, but I doubt it

    • @daveengland8931
      @daveengland8931 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      if its WW1 then no we truly wanted to be there (at first lol) 70% of the CEF was of british decent, yet they only made up a small percentage of overall immigrants of the time,
      if its WW2 then yeah youre right, we deff did not want to be there at all.

    • @poultryfornicator4412
      @poultryfornicator4412 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Many supported the Crown and its endeavors. Issue was taken though, mostly by the Francos and western provinces- who many of predominantly germanic descent didn't care much for england's affairs and just wanted to do their thing- farm. There were still enough loyal to the Crown to support in smaller capacities/numbers from mostly the Franco, as wheat was in short supply due to early frosts and small harvests + war effort, and the prairies stepped it up to help keep things going.

    • @daveengland8931
      @daveengland8931 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@poultryfornicator4412 it also cannot be understated the efforts of eastern canadian communities, they had much smaller populations than their western/central counterparts but still contributed entire pals battalions.
      but well said about the franco canadians, we couldnt have done it without them.

  • @AgxntAqua
    @AgxntAqua หลายเดือนก่อน +130

    Pops raised me not to start a fight but make sure to finish it. Seems like that’s how most of Canada sees things. 😂

    • @beneque79
      @beneque79 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      We like our peace, very much!

    • @owenmasters5208
      @owenmasters5208 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Can confirm

    • @michaelbujaki2462
      @michaelbujaki2462 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      My parents taught me something similar. Their parents taught them the same lesson.

    • @trent2kg813
      @trent2kg813 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      also raised with strict manners

    • @Lukewarmbec
      @Lukewarmbec 29 วันที่ผ่านมา

      My parents told me the exact same thing and I’m Canadian too! 😂😂

  • @christopherbataluk8148
    @christopherbataluk8148 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    One of my mothers cousins suffered from lung injuries suffered from mustard gas for the rest of his life. It's accurate to say the Canadian soldiers were upset about gas attacks.

    • @michaelbujaki2462
      @michaelbujaki2462 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      To the average Canadian soldier, Fritz Haber was a major jerk.

  • @kylemclaughlin2184
    @kylemclaughlin2184 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It’s all the pent up aggression from being so nice all the time… try smiling through your grinding teeth and apologize to someone who is being rude to you, all the time, for years… you’d be looking for any reason lose it too believe me.