Canadians do not seem to boast about their country. It is an unusual phenomenon, developed apparently through a combination of colonial tradition and 'not wanting to sound like Americans'. The reasons are probably as complex as those that establish any cultural identity. Canadian reticence is mentioned here in an attempt to explain how it is that the design and production of nearly 900,000 military vehicles and a vast array of other war material by eleven million Canadians during the Second World War, largely 'given away1 to the Allies, remains an unsung aspect of Canada's contribution to the prosecution of the war and would seem to be passed over in Canadian schools. Personally we have long been intrigued by the apparent lack of Canadian interest in those rather peculiar but distinctive right-hand drive Canadian Military Pattern trucks and assorted armoured vehicles so familiar to Europeans (and Australians for that matter). Was it a case of 'hats off to the past but sleeves up for the future'? Perhaps.
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