Transcript God_Save_the_Queen[1]

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
• The Confederacy
• 275,000 wounded
• 110,000 combat
deaths
• 250,000 deaths
(disease, etc..)
• 137,000+ wounded
• 94,000 combat
deaths
• 164,000 deaths
(disease , etc..)
North versus South
Free 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!
St.Albans Raid –Telegraph in
Montreal Gazette 1864
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.
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
Big Bear
Saskatchewan March – May
6000 vs 500
Pondmaker
Crowfoot