I'm assuming those are the first VC's awarded to Canadians in the war. possibly the first VC's in the war period.
Edit: Yeah, just checked the first VC was awarded on August 23. beat them by 4 days.
Boy, when you name a story, you name a story. I wasn't expecting the Rainbow to be sunk so soon. I mean it was inevitably going to happen given the name, but that was relativity speaking, very early in the story.