[dfwgator]

Of course, neither does French Quebec have any family history in WW1 or WW2 - except as draft dodgers !

Including the Current PM's daddy.....

"So there was a war? Tough ... if you were a French Canadian in Montreal in the early 1940s, you did not automatically believe that this was a just war ... we tended to think of this war as a settling of scores among the superpowers." - Pierre Trudeau

[robowombat]

What is even more remarkable is that Pierre Trudeau when PM could get away with straight up insulting the Canadian Forces on the floor of Parliament and there were only a few boos. This was in 1966, as I recall. Just flat utter contempt for the uniformed forces saying, among other things, ‘we have better things to spend money on than that sort of stuff’.

[Nothingburger]

Actually, I was just reading an Osprey Publishing book titled “D-Day Beach Assault Troops,” published in 2017.

It references a lot of Canadian units, some French. For example, on page 38 there’s a pic of soldiers from Le Regiment de la Chaudiere waiting in their landing craft.

As to French Canada’s overall contribution to the war effort, I admit I have not studied this closely. I get the impression that the Quebecois were more engaged in WW2 than the Great War, but that’s just an impression.