Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping PastPeacekeeping. Despite efforts to relegate it to the past, what was once a central pillar in Canadas national identity has been making a comeback in recent years. Creating Canadas Peacekeeping Past illuminates how participation in the United Nations peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 became central to national self identification in both English and French Canada. Delving into four decades worth of political rhetoric, newspaper coverage, textbooks,