Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

Robert Hailman scripsit:

> To the Americans it may have been questionable whether Canada would ever
> join the Union, but to Canadians it was clear that they would like to
> keep their ties with Britain.
Surely by 1812, with the influx of United Empire Loyalists after 1783,
Canada's mood was firmly anti-Yank.  But the city of Halifax sent one
Robert Tripp (admittedly not a native Bluenose) to the First Continental
Congress in 1776.  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.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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