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Canadian Identity?
“God Save the Queen” 1837-1901 (“I am looking for something new”.)
Maple Syrup and Furs – Not the Future
The American Civil War 1861-1865 Union versus Confederacy(Brother against Brother)
Price in Blood
• The Union• 275,000 wounded• 110,000 combat
deaths• 250,000 deaths
(disease, etc..)
• The Confederacy• 137,000+ wounded• 94,000 combat
deaths• 164,000 deaths
(disease , etc..)
North versus SouthFree versus Slave
Emancipation Proclamation
Gettysburg Address - 1863
• “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
• “That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. “
Was it all over this?
Canadian Civil War Veterans(10,000) – Relationship between Sara Emma Edmonds
and Frank Thompson?
Proof of Annexation
• Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States is hereby authorized and directed, whenever notice shall be deposited in the Department of State that the governments of Great Britain and the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, Canada, British Columbia, and Vancouver's Island have accepted the proposition hereinafter made by the United States, to publish by proclamation that, from the date thereof, the States of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Canada East, and Canada West, and the Territories of Selkirk, Saskatchewan, and Columbia, with limits and rights as by the act defined, are constituted and admitted as States and Territories of the United States of America.
Trent Affair - 1861
Chesapeake Incident - 1863
“Steamer Chesapeake of the New York and Portland Line, en route to Portland, Maine, was seized off Cape Cod by a group of 17 Confederate sympathizers led by
John C. Braine. The bizarre undertaking had been planned at St. John, New Brunswick.”
“At the appropriate moment they threw aside their disguises. and after a brief exchange of gunfire in which the second engineer was killed, took possession of the steamer.”
Take the loot and hideout in Canada!
We must, we repeat, preserve our neutrality, and their right of asylum which British soil affords inviolate, and punish with the sternest severity any breach which can be discovered. If we do not we shall find ourselves dragged into the war for needless cause; our eastern frontier lit up with the fires of now peaceful
homes, and the country on both sides of the line made red with murders. We cannot say that the Confederate Government has
in any way sanctioned the outrages reported to have taken place at St. Albans; nor can we say that they have been committed by
Confederates.
St.Albans Raid –Telegraph in Montreal Gazette 1864
Brown, Cartier, Galt – 3 members of the Great Coalition
The Greatest of the Coalition? "I get sick ... not because of drink [but because] I am forced to
listen to the ranting of my honorable opponent."
Charlottetown Conference-Sept.1864 “I hear there is a circus in town.”
Quebec Conference – Oct.1864 (Where’s the Great Coalition?)
London Conference – late 1866 (NB’s time to shine)
BNA Act - July 1
That’s it!!!
Who’s my Daddy?
Joseph Howe:Reformer
Anti-Confederate
MP , MLA
Cabinet Minister
Problems in Red River
"I must have another $10,000. Will be the last time of calling. Do not fail me. Answer today."
The Return of Louis Riel:Northwest Rebellion 1885
Gabriel Dumont Pondmaker
Big Bear Crowfoot
Saskatchewan March – May6000 vs 500
