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[Star Wars OT & EU Canon/Legends] Did the Alliance ever tell Luke about any of the other Force Sensitives who helped them?

In both canon and legends there were folks like Starkiller, Ahsoka, Rahm Kota, Kanan, and Ezra who aided and even helped establish the Rebel Alliance way before Luke showed up, and none of them really made too much of an effort to hide the fact that they could use the Force and cut down Stormtroopers with their lightsabers. Heck Leia even got rescued by a dude who could crush a freaking AT-ST with his mind. 

Did anyone ever tell Luke, either during or after the war, that he wasn't the first Jedi to join the Alliance? Or did they think it would've been demoralizing for him to hear; "Hey we had a bunch of other Jedi helping us who were way more powerful than you but they're all dead... I'm sure you'll be different though."
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In legends a lot of what the rebellion did was kept secret from everyone else in the rebellion.  Basic cell operations it wasn't until after hoth that most of the rebels were destroyed or abandoned the cause that things got pretty simplified and leadership more streamlined.  Post endor Luke likey found records of a handful of former jedi and force sensitives that helped the rebellion but it wasn't until later that he reached out to every known force user to join him.  By 25bby he had collected a large number of jedi exiles and former students and a large amount of force sensitives to have a respectable size order to fight the vong.  
In canon it's not really made clear how many jedi survived the purge or even the galactic civil war to be a part of his order but it's been mentioned he did gather everyone that was left in the rebellion to start his order prior to kylos massacre.  Haven't seen any eu mentions of who and how big his order was or if the cameos in the new film add up to anything.  I'd assume Luke in canon had less access to rebellion information about force users tho.