“But the war doesn’t go the way anybody expects,” says author and historian Jack Granatstein, former head of the Canadian War Museum. With D-Day and the war, the country was soon basking in a newfound self-confidence matched only by its desire for peace. And I think D-Day and the Second World War contributed to that strong desire for peace.”Canada started the war with a regular army of 4,200. “One of the five beaches is ours,” says Canadian War Museum historian Tim Cook. In 1999, D-Day was selected the Canadian news event of the century in a survey by The Canadian Press.

Source: National Post June 02, 2019 14:03 UTC