@Anibyl So, Canadian history is everything that happened inside the current borders of Canada?

@evan Mainly? Otherwise, what's the point of it being Canadian?

If you take a course on quantum mechanics, classical mechanics won't be an important part of it — but it'd be referenced and compared to.

You can't just pile everything together — sometimes it's important to focus.

@carkner @evan Would you even define such a thing as “Canadian history” in this framework?

@carkner @Anibyl I think there are very few Canadian historians who would say that the Battle of Vimy Ridge wasn't an important part of Canadian history even though it happened off Canadian soil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge

@evan @carkner Because it was? I never said the soil was the only defining factor, but you have to draw the line somewhere if you're trying to divide the global history into national parts.

@Anibyl @carkner

What about calling it the history of Canadians?