A favor if you please

[Bill Murray]

Evening all:
My first post on the new Forum. Very nice indeed!!

I need a little help here if you feel like it.
I belong to probably 20 other vehicle oriented forums and some get pretty active about current events. Infortunately, a lot of bad intel means a lot of crap gets spread around and the food fights get into real baseball bat wielding donneybrooks.

Any, one one particular forum there are three Canadian Ford truck owners that are getting killed by a bunch of my countrymen. The basic theme from here is that America has saved the world since WWI, Canada has done nothing but benefit from that and why is Canada not more supportive of our posture on Iraq?

I am not going there, but having lived in Canada a couple of years and been associated with Canadians through past careers for thirty years and of course hanging out on this forum for a few years I am fairly well up on the really vast contributions Canadians have made to "save the world" but.......I would like to get some input from you guys so I can slam your detractors with facts not more half baked opinions. I could spend a day or so on research but I would like to get back on that other forum fairly soon so here goes.

What is the population of Canada today?

At what point did Canada enter into WW I or the 1914-1918 War?
I thought it was early as 1914 but I am not sure. What in general was the force sent to Europe? Major actions? Casualties.

I know Canadians participated in WWII from the get go and some surely got caught at Dunkirk. I am generally aware of the Dieppe raid and that it was a Canadian operation. Could I get a nutshell synopsis of that one including prisoners.
As for the 1914-1918 conflict, what was the size of the Canadian contribution? Was it Canadian forces alone that liberated Holland? Total casualty figures for WWII. Is it not so that all Canadians posted to the war zones were volunteers as opposed to conscripts?
I know Canadians fought in Korea, not sure about Viet Nam so need that and maybe a laundry list of conflicts post 1945 where Canada has contributed troops of whatever type.

Sorry for the long post, but these guys are getting slaughtered and Canada is my most favorite country after my own and I really would like to help these guys out. Not by slinging mud but rather with a long list of achievements by our neighbors to the north.
Bill