From the viewpoint of someone who got Canadian schooling but still heard the song, it's a story that ought to be addressed as part of the history classes in the US. Maritime economy has been a relatively large part of the east coast life for way too many years to ignore. Of course, I don't know if they do cover it, just that I've never seen much reference to all the traffic on the lakes and St. Laurence Seaway in US books. We covered some of importance of the Seaway in Canada but the lakes aren't Canadian.