Likely correct.  History doesn't sell.  Entertainment does.  Learned that lesson early, watchin' Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, C.B. DeMille's version of our "scarlet force" in North-West Mounted, James Stewart in The FBI Story, and Charlton Heston as Buffalo Bill (Pony Express.) Burt Lancaster as  Wyatt Earp (Gunfight at the OK Corral), and Mickey Rooney as Young Tom Edison.  

Now, lemme think, I KNOW Canada has some interesting historical figures besides those movie mounties.  I just KNOW it...