So much fuss and bother has been made on both sides of the border over Donald Trump’s presumed intention to annex Canada as the 51st state that people seem to have forgotten that the issue goes back at least as far as an October 21, 1774 Congressional “Address to the Inhabitants of the Province of Quebec.”
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As Mark Anderson in his archival “The Battle for the Fourteenth Colony: America’s War of Liberation in Canada,1774–1776” explains, “The Address warned, ‘You are a small people, compared to those who with open arms invite you into a fellowship. A moment’s reflection should convince you which will be most for your interest and happiness’.” (Shades of Donald Trump.)
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The invitation was refused, and the Continental Army invaded, hoping
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