"We smug Canadians forget that ..."

Nope, wrong Cosmic.  Canadians don't forget.  Because most of us never knew in the first place, and--as many will be eager to tell any who ask why--we DON'T CARE. Forget about another country's history. We don't know the history of our own.  Mind you, it's never been easy to know it.  I mean, REALLY know it.  Because Canadians also never really got the hang of mythologizing their history, either, unlike the Excited States. "Alexander McKenzie?  Umm...lemme think..."

Worse, we are very much like the U.S. in one other way: Canucks exult over bits of history we love (although some of those same bits were reviled in the past) and we bury some bits we now don't like (although some of these bits were championed in the past.). Example: 

Exult: Nellie McClung's pioneering efforts for women's rights.
Bury: McClung's passionate advocacy of Eugenics, the sterilization of people politely referred to as "mental deficients" less than a century ago.