Is Canada too Multicultural to Appreciate OUR History?

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I finished watching a fantastic television series the other day. It was called, "The Sons of Liberty".

From Sons of Liberty

It was a co UK-USA production about events leading up to the Revolutionary War and the signing of the USA declaration of independence in 1776.
Airing about a month before, I saw another series (Texas Rising) that was about the Texan struggle for their independence from Mexico in the post Alamo time frame of 1835–1836.

From Texas Rising

Both these shows were extremely well done. I am now glued to another series — yet to be finished — done by the BBC called Poldark. It's a story in the post US revolutionary time of the 1780s in Cornwall at the south of England. 
This series is more like a historical novel, but is very interesting to see the way of life back then and be entertained.

These three shows have character, depth and above all, their countries' life during the parts of their 18th century heritage. Both countries are prepared to enlighten and entertain us with that part of our ancestry. 

From Poldark

I respect Canada's multicultural ideals, but since much of our history is being neglected in schools, I am wondering if the CBC is forgetting where and how Canada got its start or just ignoring it because it is the in thing to do.

Is Canada too Multicultural to Appreciate OUR History? It is not. Our history is deep and deserves more than some small vignettes on the multi-cultural TV station..

CBC - give some thoughts to enlightening and entertaining us with some Canadian History, unless you consider our pride is not worth viewing.   

One Flag No - Another Flag Yes

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Pre-amble

The following narrative is not to be taken as hatred or incitement against the people of Japan. Their deed is done albeit unrecognised by them. It is solely a comparison used to exemplify some inequities within our social mind.

Hinomaru (Rising Sun Flag)

To the Japanese, the Hinomaru was the “Rising Sun flag that would light the darkness of the entire world.” To Westerners and the rest of Asia, it was one of the Japanese military's most powerful symbols.

Axis of Evil

Our society that abhors Nazis and dislikes the Southern Confederacy holds not the same standard for the images of the Japanese Rising Sun — the symbol of the Empire of Japan during late 19th and early 20th centuries and truly much more offensive than the Swastika or CSA Battle flag.

Everyone knows about Adolf Hitler and his organization having committed atrocities against humanity and the importance the affect was of the holocaust. But wait; maruta, the Rape of Nanking, the Palawan Massacre and many more brutal events are alien to our public schools history. Why?

Canada Day - some of our history

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Canada Day would not be the same if it were not for at least some recollections of our great country and what it took to build. So much is always said about our founding fathers and the actual act of confederation in 1867 but I have my favourite stories also, especially since I grew up not terribly far from where this battle took place.

A Discovery

Historians and chroniclers for nearly two centuries made no mention of this episode in the Iroquois wars of the 1660s. It was lost to time only that in the 19th century, a discovery by Dollier de Casson’s unveiled — in my mind — an incredible act of bravery and how much this land of ours meant to the new Europeans living here. That discovery was a manuscript of the Histoire du Montréal, which gave detailed accounts of the combat of May 1660 — otherwise known as, “the Battle of the Sault”.