Re: CHAT: University Advice (was Re: A bit of advice)

Robert Hailman wrote:

> >From the modern Canadian perspective, the War of 1812 was merely a
> (rather unprovoked) invasion from the U.S.
Indeed.

> It only cemented our ties with Britain, and pretty much killed any
> desire to join the US that Canadians may have harboured prior to that.
Just so.  After all, Halifax sent a representative to the First Continental
Congress in 1775, but the city remained firmly in British hands throughout
the war (and a good thing too, because it was the only deep-water harbour
in North America at the time).

So it is not unreasonable to think of 1812 as Canada's definitive act of
separation from the U.S.  Canadian nationalism has two faces, a weaker
one against Britain and a stronger one against the U.S.

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