LCS teacher Amy McGrath and I are Canadians who teach Canadian History to many students whose first experience with the country began the moment they stepped off a plane in September. Our job is more complicated than it used to be. Aside from teaching students that while there are numerous overlaps between Canadian and American History, and that throughout the last 250 years, we have had the propensity to get involved in each other’s wars, occasionally against each other, there are stark differences between American and Canadian History. Our main task, however, is to separate fact from myth. Canadians are destined to be misunderstood both by themselves and others. Despite popular rhetoric to the contrary, we are not a country that thanks bank machines, apologizes when slighted by others and the vast majority of us don’t live on the tundra but within 100 kilometres of the American border. Most Canadians…
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