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No. Many forget that a large number of Canadians were held as prisoners of war in the Pacific. The biggest blow to Canadian troops in that region came on Christmas Day, 1941, when Hong Kong fell. On that one day 1,689 Canadians were captured by the Japanese. It’s thought that 1,405 survived the camps in Hong Kong and Japan.
