Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

John Cowan wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman wrote:
>
> > > [...] the First Continental
> > > Congress in 1776.
>
> Oops, I meant 1774.
>
Close enough.

> > >  Halifax being the only deepwater port (at the time)
> > > on the Eastern seaboard, the British kept it even more firmly in
> > > hand than New York City.
> > >
> >
> > Well, my question here is whether Halifax had any intention of joining
> > the U.S.
>
> In 1774 there was no concept of the "U.S.", only British North America,
> with a basically common set of interests.  In the end, the colonies
> north of Massachusetts Bay did not participate in armed rebellion.
>
Right, but what I want to know is whether Halifax had any intention of
leaving British North America, as the colonies in the present-day United
States did.

--
Robert