Test of Will

Thirty-six years, almost to the day, after the Princess Patricia's Light Infantry turned back the first German gas attack of World War I, the same regiment, at Kap'yong, stopped the Chinese in their deepest penetration into South Korea - which earned them a U.S. Presidential Unit Citation.

Archival photographs, film footage, and radio reports combined with letters, speeches, articles, and reports from the time tell the little known story of the Canadian involvement in Korea, the first war in which Canadian troops served directly under American command as part of a United Nations force. It is a neglected war. The Canadian Government, for political reasons, preferred the designation, "police action", denying its veterans the gratitude generally extended to those who have fought and died for their country.

The Korean War was a pivotal moment in Canada's history. By establishing that the Western allies were prepared to use force to stop the rise of totalitarianism's most serious threat, communism, it shaped the geo-political order of the Cold War era and provided the opportunity for Canada's continued rise to prominence as a serious and respected "middle power" interested in protecting and promoting the ideals of peace, order and good government on the world stage.



100 mins

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