On 2021-05-01 12:02 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> On 5/1/2021 11:27 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

>>> You're reaching now, they settled where the weather wasn't as
>>> ****ed up as it is up north where no no wants to live, and they
>>> stayed south because of their ties to the US economy.
>
> What "US economy"?Â* The settlements on both sides of what became the
> US/Canadian borders were exactly that.Â* Settlements.Â* Not thriving
> metropolises that sprouted up with bankers and CEO's wearing suits. Heh.
>
> BTW, that US/Canadian border stretches across the entire North American
> Continent from coast to coast.Â* A Bruce uses a pretty big brush to paint
> with.
>
>>>
>>> Neither has anything to do with a history book.
>>
>> You clearly don't know shit about the history of Canada.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
> He's taking pot shots, as usual.Â* Bruce does a lot of uninformed
> speculating.
>


It is easy for someone to assume something on the basis of ignorance.
He assumed that Canadians stuck close to the US for economic reasons.
The fact is that southern Ontario got its first wave of settlers from
the US. They were Loyalists who were escaping oppression in the US.
They settled very close to the border because they travel was too
rigorous. It was wilderness and there were no roads. Most came by water
and disembarked at the few ports that existed. The capital was Newark,
but that was destroyed in the War of 1812. York, now Toronto, replaced
it as capital of Upper Canada because it was further from the US and
safer. It was a bit of a compromise because some had wanted London to
be the capital as it was further inland and safer.

When Upper and Lower Canada united the capital was in Kingston for a
short time, but once again, too close to the US, so it was moved to
Ottawa. We learned early that having government seats and industry too
close to the US was too risky. They were too close to a neighbour that
have tried to invade several times. Our border towns tended to build up
as transportation centres but not business and manufacturing centres.
Those had to be tucked away safely.