Source: Josh Dehaas, CTV News, November 8, 2017
Passchendaele was one of the deadliest battles in Canadian history, but a new poll released exactly 100 years later finds that most Canadians can’t even correctly identify which war it was part of.
When given a list of five wars to choose from–including the Second World War, Korean War, Vietnam War and war in Afghanistan– only 35 per cent were able to correctly identify Passchendaele as part of the First World War. Millennials (ages 18 to 34) fared only marginally better than chance, at 27 per cent correct. Even most those over age 55 couldn’t pick the right war, with 44 per cent correct.
Image Source: FILE – In this 1917 photo, wounded Canadian and German First World War soldiers help one another through the mud during the Battle of Passchendaele, in Passchendaele, Belgium. (AP Photo/FILE)
