>What most don't know about Canadians is that we're nice until we're not.
At the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, visitors can see a case filled with the fearsome homemade weapons that Canadians trench raiders plunged into the faces and chests of their enemy: Meat cleavers, push daggers and spiked clubs.
While all Commonwealth units were encouraged to conduct trench raids, Canadians were widely regarded as trench raiding’s most enthusiastic practitioners and innovators.
In a detailed 2006 study of Canadian soldiers killing prisoners in the Great War, Cook was surprised to unearth dozens of accounts of Canadians executing surrendering Germans out of rage, vengeance or expediency.
A typical account would involve a Canadian unit losing men while charging an enemy position, and then executing the soldiers in that position when they tried to surrender. “After losing half of my company there, we rushed them and they had the nerve to throw up their hands and cry, ‘Kamerad.’ All the Kamerad they got was a foot of cold steel thro them” reads an account by Lieutenant R.C. Germain quoted by Cook.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-forgotten-ferocity-of-canadas-soldiers-in-the-great-war