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We have the same thing here in Belgium with Nationalists that want to device Belgium between Flanders(dutchspeaking) and Wallonie(french)..

And that movement got a lot of traction after WW1 as well.

But any Belgian Soldier who was died and buried during WW1 is and will always be a Belgian Soldier.

Vimy and Beaumont are Canadian Historic sites, given by France to use in perpetuity to Canada.
That does not mean that Canada wasn't British at the time.
the British empire had many countries in it.


Canada / British was not mutually exclusive in those days.
On the contrary, it was inclusive. If you had something Canadian then it was British by default.

That there were issues and feelings of resentment from French Canadians about being British, is basic proof that they were British at that time, they were subjects of the British rule ... Had they not been , they wuold not have had anything to resent.