text: Those who perpetrate the myth of Vimy having forged a nation clearly know nothing about Canadian history. These perpetrators usually work in newsrooms, fabricating elegant articles cut from semi-truths embodied in modern Canadian myths.
  
  WW1 ended in 1918, about 33 years after the railway line had reached British Columbia, immigration into the prairies was in full force, the modern geopolitical shape of Canada was almost formed, women had started to earn the right to vote, and other important turning points took place. 
  
  If Vimy had forged a nation, it was a nation of Anglophones. Francophones and Catholics had already felt alienated from English Canada and Anglophone pride fueled by the success of WW1 drove another wedge between English Protestants and French Catholics. After WW1 the KKK came rolling into Canada riding on a wave of English Protestant pride!
  
  Canada was well formed by the end of WW1. Those who say Vimy forged Canada know nothing about Canadian history.