The case was referred to the commission, which, after many sessions and much legal and scientific argument, found the extent of the damage, what should be paid for it, and what should be done to check it. This is one reason why few citizens of either country, except those immediately concerned, have even heard of its existence.
Another reason is that though it is composed of an equal number of Canadian and American members it has never divided nationally on any question and has almost always reached its conclusions unanimously. World War II entwined the interests of the two countries still further, and gave rise to new joint bodies to coordinate them. One was the Permanent Joint Defense Board already mentioned. Another was the Material Coordinating Committee to supervise the movement of raw materials and the distribution of supplies and electric power.
Another was the Joint War Production Committee to dovetail the war production of Canada and the United States so that it would reach a combined maximum. To this end there was a virtual pooling of the raw materials of the continent and a mutual suspension of tariffs on defense materials. More interesting may have been the work of the Joint Economic Committees.
Meeting together, they surveyed the resources of both countries as a whole and examined possibilities for more effective cooperation in the use and development of those resources. The Joint Economic Committees were dissolved in March , but work of the more practical Joint War Production Board and Material Coordinating Committee continued through the end of the war with Japan, and the latter body was to last indefinitely. After the end of the war against Japan, the three governments decided to continue these for the time being to help meet immediate postwar problems.
Many Americans have been fooled into imagining that Canada would like to join the United States. The intimacy and the similarity between these two neighboring nations have suggested it, and Canadians themselves have fostered the illusion by the way they have talked from time to time. It is true that there are some English-speaking Canadians who favor annexation.
There always have been some and there probably will continue to be Canadians have discussed it for generations. In a group of disgruntled English-speaking merchants and politicians of Montreal published a manifesto calling for annexation. Their agitation soon fizzled out. That was the highest point the annexation movement ever attained. About the same time it appeared in British Columbia. Annexationism has usually been the expression of sectional discontent—a stick to shake at the rest of the country.
People in the Prairie Provinces have often talked annexation out of resentment against federal policies dictated by Central Canada. But whenever the movement has raised its head enough to attract much attention, it has inspired a stronger countermovement to suppress it. The idea of annexation has never taken hold in French Canada.
It has always frightened that part of the country, and for obvious reasons. The Canadian constitution guarantees the French certain rights for their language and their religion.
Special protection for these things most precious to them would disappear under the American Constitution. Numerically, also, their position as a minority is many times stronger in the Dominion than it would be in the United States. Some Americans have been unable to understand why English Canada has always shied away from annexation. I do, though, think there is an awful lot of creation myth, legend and American exceptionalism woven in to the Revolutionary War that is rarely challenged evil, brutish, Nazi Brits subjugating oppressed, massively taxed and enslaved plucky Americans … a la Mel Gibson.
The French of course were happy to use tbe Revolution for revenge on the British. So, not anti-American… the world owes the US a lot, in many fields. This would never happen without local popular support. There has never been any. If we ignore that though, why the Hell would you include Newfoundland with Quebec? It makes literally no bloody sense.
The best time to conquer Canada would have been in WW1. The US would join the Central Powers , while the US would not be able to send troops to aid its allies it could have dispersed its navy across the ocean at the beginning of the war to harass British trade and naval ships, forcing the British to limit its navy on the illegal blockade of the German coast. The Germans would then have a much easier time breaking through the blockade. Thanks Dave-Fisherman. Today Canada is less population than California alone.
Considering all the fine comments already given. I would like to offer another alternative what if the 5 colonies that ended up coming Canada had displaced similar disloyalty to Britain as the original 13 colonies did? If the answer is yes, then it was probably made clear by them that they would stay loyal to the British ether by letter or by gun shot at the rebals.
IF no then there are high chenges that if those colonies that ended up becoming Canada felt that since they were not asked to join the revolution down south then they might was well-staying loyal to the British. One more Brilliantmaps. I wish, America passed this bill and Annexed Canda in Much of the population that origonally settled what is now Ontario were from what is now the United States. They were loyalists who fled the United States. Thus when the United States in attempted to invade Canada and did battle, they were essentially refighting a battle of the American revolutionary war from a few years earlier, but this time as invaders not defenders and in an area full of loyalists.
There is even a monument in Ontario to one of the heroes of that war, a woman of loyalist background who with her family had fled to Canada from Boston. Think of it as a another chapter in the long English Civil War of which the American Revolution was one chapter. Many people oversimplify history and wars. The colonies were not totally unified against the crown at the time of the American Revolution.
Those loyalist did not stay in all cases, they left and their descendants in large part formed Canada. Explain what connection you see with the English Civil War. It was years earlier, a rationale that was entirely to do with religion and the respective powers of monarch and parliament, American colonies in their very earliest infancy and no other British colonial possessions.
Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Think This Map Was Brilliant? Enter Your E-mail Address:. Someone should set up the scenario in Civilization and see how it plays out! The French-Canadians only would have required to keep religion and language.
Would have completely changed beer history as we know it. Hells no. No sane Canadian wants our country to be part of the USA. And then those damn Reds launched everything they had. We barely got our birds up. But at least it knocked the damn Red menace back into the stone age. The Invasion is about to start. If we can all get to the American side of the line We invaded your country once, and we'll do it again! An attempted sabotage attempt of the Alaskan pipeline is all the military needs as an excuse to begin its annexation of Canada Vast stretches of timberland are destroyed, and other resources in Canada are stretched to the breaking point.
Canadian protesters and rioters are shot on sight, and the Alaskan Pipeline swarms with American military units. Pictures of atrocities make their way to the United States, causing further unrest and protests. Army Simulated " : "With conditions deteriorating between the United States and China, a military presence in Alaska was established to prevent a possible invasion across the Bering Strait.
With increasingly scarce oil reserves, a last deep-sea deposit below the Pacific Ocean was claimed by China before allegedly being sabotaged by American special operatives. Strained relationships spiraled downward into conflict as China marched on Alaska, and the Sino-American War of — erupted. Under the command of General Jingwei, the Chinese Army usurped control of Alaska's oil pipeline and reserves.
In response, the Americans began what came to be called "The Alaskan Reclamation Operation" — Under the leadership of General Constantine Chase, the U. Army battled fiercely to the front lines of the conflict before Chase began deploying specialized Power Armor units that began pushing the Chinese back.
Future Power Armor suits were further refined as the conflict dragged on, and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline was reclaimed.
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