The common belief that Canada is far less racist then their neighbors to the south is perhaps one of the greatest falsehoods of North American society today. Through out history, Canada has been home to many race-based atrocities. Because of time and lack of media attention these events have been buried. To such an extent have these issues been neglected that the general public now cannot recognized them or discern them as part of their country�s past.
Although recently over the past thirty to forty years Canada has been on the leading edge with human rights and in areas of equality between people/sexes, this has not always been the case. Canada�s history has been just a recently blemished as that of the infamous United