Why we only recall 13 colonies instead of 14

By adamg on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 10:27am

EaBo Clipper recounts how Revolutionary fervor in Nova Scotia was squashed. Our own Evacuation Day played a role in the story.

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By anon on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 11:09am.

quashed. Happy 4th! -- Rhea

Waking Up Canadian

By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 11:27am.

My dad, a descendant of Tories who fled to Quebec and Nova Scotia after the war (on his paternal grandmother's line), wasn't aware that he and his brother were entitled to moose and maple syrup and Canadian flag bedding until I sent him this YouTube ad.

Very interesting stuff this "14th colony". I do know that PEI had, on several occasions, verged on joining the US - all the way up to the 1860s.

Canada wasn't really fully formulated until about a century ago, particularly to the North and to the west. The boundaries were not clear and their internal boundaries were not sorted until fairly recently. The southern boundary was settled only to keep the US from pushing further north and claiming Vancouver Island (see also 54 40 or fight!)

That ad is great!

By eeka on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 11:31am.

I had a lot of friends in college who were affiliated with tribes in Washington or Alaska, and whose people's areas crossed over the Canadian border. They're allowed to have either/both citizenship as they need it, and can use their tribal ID to easily cross the borders. Pretty cool.

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And waking up to poutine

By neilv on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 11:39am.

Is that what's in the cup?

Is there any chance we could

By NotWhitey on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 1:21pm.

Is there any chance we could swap with Canada - maybe North Dakota and Montata for the Maritime Provinces? I remember hearing a radio interview with the author of a what-if novel that had Quebec leaving Canada and the Maritimes joining the U.S.

Vive le Québec libre !

By Charles de Gaulle on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 2:29pm.

Would the Maritimes really want to join the US ? Haven't Canadians generally been cultivating a distinct identity from their (not always well-behaved) neighbor to the south ?

Perhaps someone from Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, or the Ile St.-Jean (aka PEI) can enlighten us.

The idea in the book was

By NotWhitey on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 8:24pm.

The idea in the book was that the resource-rich western provinces wouldn't want to keep subsidizing the Maritimesonce Quebec was independent. Then again, I doubt people in Montana and North Dakota would want to be Canadian either.