I think not wrote:
The anti-American sentiment of the time. Indeed, the entire Confederation of 1867 was based on precisely that.
Confederation wasn't created through anti-americanism per-se, It was more like a rush to establish borders because the British at the time was fearing the manifest destiny minset of the Americans at the time. Many Americans were moving west and coming up into Ruperts land, and the british were also in a rush to make sure they had the territory legally as soon as possible. So
yes there was anti americanism with those wanting to halt the expansion northward, but the Americans were pretty dogheadded with their push into British Canadian territory, the anti Canadian/British sentiment was just as rife. I'm glad we got over that little bump in the past eh?
Yes Jo Canadian, so am I. John A MacDonald referred to the war of 1812 as an example of the mindset of Americans and how they wanted more land. The question is, did they? Probably, it was 1812 after all and the memories of 1776 were not far. However the point I have been trying to make in this thread and others; anti-American sentiment in Canada runs deep. How you say? , Canadians define themselves by negation. This in fact is the CORE of anti-Americanism in Canada. Indeed, anti-Americanism has literally defined the national identity and culture of Canadians.Canadians proudly polite and politically correct will tell you there is no anti-Americanism in Canada, in fact they will be utterly shocked when confronted with it. On September 11. Briefly, Canadian hostility towards Americans yielded to sincere, if shallow, solidarity. But the enmity soon re-established itself . With the invasion of Iraq, it intensified. Yet the endlessly reiterated claim that George W. Bush “squandered” Canadians’ post-9/11 sympathy is nonsense. The sympathy was a blip; the anti-Americanism is chronic.
If that didn't happen, Canada today would most likley consist of ontario and farther east...and maybe that tiny square that was Manitoba at the time too.
