Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

John Cowan wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Well, my question here is whether Halifax had any intention of joining
the U.S. Newfoundland may have sent two representatives to the hearings
on the Confederation of Canada, but they had no intention of joining.

--
Robert