Did you know around 20 years after the US had it's revolution, people in Canada tried the same thing? The base constitution effectively echoed the US version, granting the same rights, responsibilities and limiting government. It was actually being quite successful, at one point the crown marched 30,000 troops by land from Kingston, Ontario to London, Ontario to try and stop the rebellion. It didn't work.
Know what did work? Well first the Family Compact started with random arrests and executions of people. Hundreds of people were executed outright in violation of the protections granted under the Manga Carta. Thousands were arrested or were rounded up and exiled.
The crown and the compact started offering landed rights, and property to Americans who were also selling weapons to the people fighting against the crown in Canada. They offered bounties in silver for the names of people who were buying the weapons, and landed titles(lower gentry) for those who gave up the names of people who were core organizers. Even that didn't work, and took the crown to directly stepping in and breaking the compact.
Canada, effectively got "soft UK politics" with "some" protections that Americans had put in place, in order to placate the populations of Upper and Lower Canada. It's the oldest story, you can survive enemies, even the destruction of everything at the hand of someone else, but you can't survive the traitors in your midst.
Think of how different north america would be if there were two separate counties that had far more in common then simply being brothers and cousins of Europe.
I'm pretty sure Canada itself was a diversity charter..
When the Revolution ended, the Tories fled to Canada or went back to England. Explains a lot, no?
We got a lot of great land up here, but that's the end of Canadian contribution to the world these days.
Strange fact. 68% of Canadians live longitudinally south of Seattle. NYC, southern most point of Canada and Mt. Shasta are on the same parallel.
Did you know around 20 years after the US had it's revolution, people in Canada tried the same thing? The base constitution effectively echoed the US version, granting the same rights, responsibilities and limiting government. It was actually being quite successful, at one point the crown marched 30,000 troops by land from Kingston, Ontario to London, Ontario to try and stop the rebellion. It didn't work.
Know what did work? Well first the Family Compact started with random arrests and executions of people. Hundreds of people were executed outright in violation of the protections granted under the Manga Carta. Thousands were arrested or were rounded up and exiled.
The crown and the compact started offering landed rights, and property to Americans who were also selling weapons to the people fighting against the crown in Canada. They offered bounties in silver for the names of people who were buying the weapons, and landed titles(lower gentry) for those who gave up the names of people who were core organizers. Even that didn't work, and took the crown to directly stepping in and breaking the compact.
Canada, effectively got "soft UK politics" with "some" protections that Americans had put in place, in order to placate the populations of Upper and Lower Canada. It's the oldest story, you can survive enemies, even the destruction of everything at the hand of someone else, but you can't survive the traitors in your midst.
Think of how different north america would be if there were two separate counties that had far more in common then simply being brothers and cousins of Europe.