The Washington Post on Canada

[Lallans]

Just a point: the article is from the Washington Times a much less respectable newspaper than the Washington Post. It is a much more politically motivated news outlet.

Yes a person on the left would say that, but a person on the right would say the converse. A person in the middle would say that both have a point of view.

Anyway, the FIRST Canadian revolution was in my home area of Quebec, a tiny place called Pike River which has now been wiped off the map with a french name (St Paul de Veronne, one of several I believe). The first white settlers there came up Lake Champlain from New York and Vermont after the American revolution, being refugee Loyalists, and built cabins and felled trees. The British sent down a contingent of soldiers from Montreal and told them that the area was reserved for the Indians and that they would have to move again, to a place called Cataraqui (now Kingston Ontario). The settlers, however (and this is only according to some accounts, most Loyalists descendants and Canadian gun haters being mutually horrified by the story) all quietly assembled with their muskets and squirrel rifles and suggested that if the soldiers required that, they had better go back to Montreal for more men. The soldiers said they would, and marched off- in the end, the British, fearing another revolt, changed their policy and the area was renamed the Eastern Townships and deeded to Loyalists (Quebec has also wiped the Eastern Townships off the map by renaming it from the french equivalent to something else that I refuse to repeat.) It's the historical equivalent of ethnic cleansing.