My favourite explanation for why Canada didn't join the revolution is that Canadians had a choice to being ruled by Brits in Washington or Brits in London. And London was further away. :)
Canada had the most potential: French cuisine American government and British know-how Unfortunately they got: American cuisine French know-how and British government ....sorry Canada
@kc korea Britons sort of, but no Britain is a commonwealth made up of peoples as similar looking as say Koreans, Japanese and Chinese with all the included differences 😂✌🏻
After the end of the Revolutionary War, most loyalists in the 13 colonies moved north to Canada (the “United Empire Loyalists”). This shifted the demographics in the Canadian colonies, which had been predominantly French. These demographic shifts made it less likely that Canadians would join the U.S. at a later date.
Ontario (then the western part of Quebec) was barely anything at the time, as far as colonization by Europeans was concerned. Nominally British, supposedly French in another sense, but really just extremely lightly populated and undeveloped. Ontario was for the most part founded by Americans not keen on the Revolution. A great many had been seriously persecuted when the war wrapped up-shunned, their homes and possessions confiscated, etc. (This is of course no contradiction of what you said, only some more detail on Ontario.)
@@dixonpinfold2582 as an American I confirm you are entirely correct. You were more than nice of the revolution resulting when London taxed wealthy plantation owners for the 7 year war. who could afford paying the tax, the colonies standard of living surpassed even the British who still had to pay people who worked the land while Americans turned slavery into a highly profitable slave breeding industry and slaves, since 1619 literally built the entire infrastructure of wealth in the colonies. Any European coming to the colonies was guaranteed a better life if they had a skill & minimal education. They were so desperate they hired a woman to print the official copy of the declaration of independemce sent to parliament members which the only surviving copy resurfaced in the restoration of a house owned by a Parliament employee or member which revealed the womans name & address stamped proudly in print as then publisher of the treasonist document. Proving she had guts and was brainwashed from the mass psychosis which soon followed later. Most colonist’s were stupid illiterate hillbillies even the poorest British would be appalled by. Imagine having everything taken because you dared call the slave owners bluff. Because that was the first Congress, slave owners who knew what was coming after the November 1, 1755 earthquake/tsunami/fire that leveled Lisbon. It was an act of God for creating the slave trade to the terrified Portugese. That only made the Americans wealthier & the British were clamping down on slavery. Jealousy of American wealth had to have pissed the British off after copies of the declaration were sent all over the globe. Only enemies of the British recognized the document & all 4 provided aide. But non got involved directly until Benjamin Franklin Ambassadorto France notified the King his execution was on the horizon. The French loved him. They never knew any hillbillies from America except their own in Canada & wrote them off. Ben Franklin was a brilliant man, a genius to be precise & for years he worked on the French when most colonists were pissed for the French paying out money for every American scalp local aboriginals hacked off even more for the British for a war London forced upon colonists to fight & pay for. The colonists coming accross a group of bloodied scalpless soldiers must of caused insanity from constant paranoia & it worked. The french speaking Canada was insurance to Ontario because you had to enter PTSD land from the trauma of scalping just to get to Ontario. They feared the French & half of Americans hate them to this day when we owe our creation to the French monarchy who were executed immediately after helping. Americans went on to a civil war which the British would have averted by destroying the plantation privileged culture that emerged after the British surrender. It was modeled after the French sense of fashion proving the rich knew what sacrifice the French made. The general white public were still stupid poor & undereducated. Plantations hired them as brutal managers which made slaves fear them but trust their owners. This continued after the civil war when SEGREGATION-REPLACED SLAVERY. Blacks or women of any type were not free until immediately following the CIA assassination involvement of JFK. It turned the Vice President now President johnson into a mean determined revengeful Texan who used every dirty trick he could including (graphic) placing his penis in the hand of one politician and said you cant beat that but it will destroy your career so help me god if you dare support segregation. The landmark civil rights bill not only freed blacks it freed women and eventually gays & transgender. It literally changed culture and made bitter losers abandon their Dixiecrat party & rewrite Republicans into the racist party it is today. Americans are prisoners from the very republic plantation owners created after the revolution. Congress has all the power. Americans cant even vote except in 26 states ruled by a federal totalitarian govt. The vote for President is done by the electoral college because the Plantation feared the people having any control. America is no different than the peoples republic of china. Its just that we have 2 parties china has one. But we are both Republics. Russia? Republic. We are not a democracy. People can vote in a democracy. Congress votes for us instead. Its impossible to vote congress out. Only congress can fire a rep from the states. States cant even recall their own Congress they elected. They have to wait it out it takes 30 years for any state to gain power. By then, they Are corrupt. aAt least Canada can call for a national vote. Congress never will. Never has except for the corrupt president election. I did not vote for Trump but respect when he said when he ran against Hillary, “i know how corrupt the system is, i got rich off it!”
Underrated comment. I've always considered New Brunswick and the peninsula of Ontario (Upper Canada) to be "the anti-States". They were organised as provinces exactly because so many American Loyalists moved there
If you mean the French Revolution then the French colonists still loyal to the old monarchy in their mother country at the time even though they were under British rule. They hate the republicans for the murder of King Louis XVI when news of the king being executed came through to Quebec.
French joined the yanks during the war of independence in fighting against the British The french also paid for your statue of liberty sometime in 1880s Proper bum chums the yanks & the French .
Newfoundland has an almost separate history from the rest of Canada, to a certain extent. They stayed under British rule and almost didn't even become a part of Canada.
Newfoundland was it's own country just like Canada between 1907 and 1934 before falling back into british dependency due to its massive contribution to WW1 that wiped out an entire generation of young men. Between that, a cross island railway, and the great depression the country was in to much debt. However, by the end of WW2 its economy was even better then Britains for a time and they held a vote between becoming a country again, joining Canada, or joining the US. The vote was split almost 50/50 between country and joining Canada but as you see who the slight edge went to Newfoundland joined confederation in 1949. That is why Newfoundland is so distinct from the rest of Canada we're Newfoundlanders first, Canadians second.
@@Countrybananas While joining the US was a fairly popular sentiment, the UK blocked any such option from being included on the ballot. The three options were a return to responsible government (our constitution restored and our democracy returned, which by the way was guaranteed to happen when it was suspended), join Canada, or remain under commission government for another 5 years. Returning to responsible government won the first vote although with slightly less than majority of the vote. Responsible government was the legitimate winner but people in power who had agendas saw the opportunity to change the rules of the referendum to get a second go at making Newfoundland a province of Canada and held a second referendum not including the least popular option being a continuation of commission of government.
@@Countrybananas I want our NFLD Red Ensign back (Or in the very least, the Tricolour), and get rid of that fucking geometry set we have for one now. (And our original abbreviation as Ive used above while we arebat it)
@@razzberry6180 While we're at it, lets go back to the Canadian red ensign in place of the maple leaf flag. I personally think these old fashioned flags with crests and such are much cooler looking and more representative than bland geometrical shapes (for the most part)
@@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump I have the 1922-57 Candian Red Ensign hanging up in my room. I have it there to inspire me to do my best everyday as our young boys fought literal evil to ensure our liberty. Can we have Maple Leaf Forever back too? 😂
"Nova Scotia was far less urbanized" I'm from the maritimes (what previously was saint johns island and Nova Scotia), and its rather fun to learn our eternal poverty isn't actually recent, its historical. It truly is funny to learn how my province was throughout all of history the hub of the poor.
@@rajkaranvirk7525 better then it was in the past but not better then the rest of Canada or New England. In relative terms we're still poor and rather rural.
@@rajkaranvirk7525 people from Ontario and BC are moving here in large numbers because it's cheaper to live here lol, its not so bad. Definitely rural though. The economy wasn't in the best shape because several key industries collapsed/moved in the 20th century (plus Quebec gets special treatment and the United States has historically imposed tariffs on goods from the maritimes) but things are picking back up.
I like how you went over each of the areas. Specifically New Brunswick and Nova Scotia - had hardly any people at all at that time, especially after the British forced the Acadians to leave. In fact, because of all the open land, it was where alot of the loyalists went after American independence (there's one town named after the admiral who sailed them up there).
It was actually only in the 1910s that a bunch of American newspaper editors started the campaign to 'rationalise' the English language (and save space in their newspapers) by removing letters to shorten words. Some of the changes stuck (defence to defense, colour to color, calibre to caliber, catalogue to catalog), but others did not (surprise to surprize, addressed to addresst, press to pres, boat to bot). As late as the 1950s, you can still see some magazines spelling through as 'thru', and although as 'altho', but eventually they gave up on these too.
@@AdmiralBonetoPick I legitimately think that someone needs to change the way English is spelled so it makes sense. For example, English doesn't spells both the TH sound in 'the' the same way as the TH sound in 'thistle'. In Welsh, they are spelled TH and DD respectively. Also, why do so many words end in GH (through, although, etc)! It also doesn't held that English can't decide which diphthongs correspond to which sounds.
@Blaze Temp I'm a native English speaker, but if the language is to gain international use, as it has done in the past hundred years, I think it's spelling should be consistent.
@@ZephLodwick You have it backwards. Due to the fact that everyone's pronunciation around the world is different, spelling needs to stay the same. Having "Indian English" and "American English" and "South African English" in WRITING is doing the world no favours. The spellings are the way they are because they came from other languages, too little too late, if you want to change the spelling, you have to first convince a majority of English speakers around the world why your specific spelling is better. Good Luck with that
I'm from an Indian family in Nova Scotia who were one of those responsible for the sack of Dartmouth, and thus ironically helped cement my Canadian citizenship
it is ok now...USA has so much 'winning' today under Trump.. hehe..look at Japan..they use Jedi anime mind tricks to make USA happy to repay for wars...USA is special...they are broke and crazy but they are special and have big gargantuan penis...
get hosed? never in my time have i heard that. a hoser is synonymous with a loser but to hose someone down with water after a hockey game would be just rude and also land you a shit kicking. spy detected.
Yah, before the 1830s, England/Britain itself hadn't redistricted much in the centuries since Parliament had gained significant power. And the demographics had certainly changed in that time. Some districts had no or almost no people, yet still were Parliamentary Boroughs that elected 2 MPs each.* While new industrial cities like Manchester had no MPs of their own, and were lumped in with nearby rural areas. And pretty much everywhere, you had to be a landowner to vote. The growing threat of revolution finally prompted a reform in 1832, to equal-population constituencies with sensible borders. EDIT: And yes, Matt G's comment too. In both Britain itself and the colonies, only landowning men could vote. But compared to Britain itself, a much larger percentage of men in the colonies owned enough property to qualify. And while they could vote for local governments and the colonies' own legislatures, they couldn't vote for actual MPs (and could only send lobbyists). And more than a century of mostly hands-off rule meant it wasn't clear just how much power Parliament was "supposed" to have over the colonies and their legislatures. * The really low-population districts were called "rotten boroughs" or "pocket boroughs", because their voting populations were small enough for a landowner -- or a small group of landowners -- to buy off and/or threaten a majority into voting as instructed. ...Especially since votes were cast _out loud_ in public back then. They included places like... - *Dunwich, Suffolk* -- Medieval port city, whose river changed course away from the town, leading to a.) the harbor silting up, and b.) the town gradually falling into the sea. Population 232 in 1831, with 32 voters, yet it still elected 2 MPs. - *Newtown, Isle of Wight* -- Old port on the Isle of Wight, destroyed in a 1377 war between England and France. It rebuilt, but gradually lost out to more defensible ports like Newport. Population 68 by 1831, with 23 voters -- many of whom lived elsewhere -- yet it still elected 2 MPs. - *Old Sarum, Wiltshire* -- A hill that was once Salisbury's old town, population _zero_ after it was gradually abandoned. By 1831, all _7_ of its voters lived elsewhere, yet it still elected 2 MPs.
It's not so much that they had barely any representation. It's that generally only men in Britain who owned land greater than or equal to a certain (fairly high) value had the right to vote. (That didn't change until the 1830s.) The wealthy, landowning leaders of the American Revolution didn't have that and they were pissed about it, since it meant they had no say with regard to taxation or any of the other rules/regulations imposed on the colonies by the British government. That was the fundamental root of the revolution. All that moral stuff about freedom, self-determination, holding certain truths to be self-evident, etc.? Just propaganda to get as many of the poor colonists (i.e. the 99%) on their side for the fight that was to come. It was about money, power and control. Wars always are.
@@hux2000 That's a great overview. It's also worth noting that a lot of that propaganda was created after the fact to make the revolution feel more heroic, since it is now the foundational myth of the United States. Studying that history means dealing with 300 years of people who had very strong incentives to distort and sanitize the past.
@@Revolución_Socialista not in English mate, when we say Americans we are taking about united States citizens there is not other demonym. We don't normal refer to people in the Americas by continent in English but when we do it's North Americans for people in North America and South Americans for those in South America.
@Brad Sanchez It's because you live on vast continent-spanning land masses where you could spread out more (sorry Kiwis, apart from you guys obviously). Politeness and strict social etiquette are the product of societies that live in close proximity. Just remember, there are as many Brits living on a tiny island as there are the ENTIRE combined populations of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. You see the same thing, culturally, with the Japanese. Small, overpopulated island: Very polite people who try to avoid conflict (with each other). Large, relatively spread out continent-spanning nations: Rude, blunt and don't give a shit if they cause offence.
@nickys34 Until you look at actual statistics regarding dental hygiene, and realise US is, like most other things, far far behind.. Brush your fucking teeth America.
ItzImperium XVI the people that “need” it have it covered under welfare. Most normal people have insurance here also, without the month wait for surgery instead of instant here.
Nova Scotian here. Port Willians township almost suceeded but then apparently Kings Orange Rangers came from some loyal city and marched between what is now north kentville and port William's with muskets loaded for a month straight and they decided not to cause any more fuss.
I think Nova Scotia should've joined the U.S even if none of the others did. I hold a fond place in my heart for it as most Bostonians do. My family migrated from Nova Scotia in the 1800s. Thanks for the Christmas trees and I hope you all like the improved version of Halifax, my great grandfather worked on it.
@@aleckushmerek1757 it's better then that smoking crator the french made us lol. I appreciate Boston's help and we'll always be allies, thanks and your welcome for the trees!
The last part about proximity fasinated me the most, makes total sense to not want to be the closest kid to mom when you've all been caught doing something
this was accurate and answered many interesting questions - Newfoundland: Too remote, too easily suppressed - Nova Scotia: Britain *won the war militarily* in this colony, as the rebellion could not sustain and the regular military presence was too strong (New Brunswick was separated in 1784; this begs the question of whether Maine would have had a different fate had it not been part of Massachusetts, a highly developed, maximally rebellious colony) - St. John's Island / PEI: its fate depended on neighboring areas - Quebec: Once the American invasion failed, and with the St. Lawrence facilitating British control and the British having granted Catholicism its place, there was little reason for Quebec to side with the Americans; it is curious that France after 1778 didn't seem to care about it anymore and that Quebec didn't seem to care about using the war to restore France to North America; also there were some British victories elsewhere in the world war after Yorktown, even once America was lost, that helped boost its negotiating position against France, Spain, and Netherlands.
Quebeckers didn't try to restore French rule because that would require fighting and risk. As you can see throughout colonial history in the new world Britain had a much more difficult time attempting to take colonies from Spain than they did from France. Even a very weak Spain in decline dealt some humiliating blows to Britain. Something France could never achieve. Even during its peak.
The British Empire partitioned Nova Scotia due to concerns that their Halifax based colonial government were not meeting the needs of Continental Nova Scotia whom were experiencing population growth as a result of the British Loyalist exodus from "The 13 Colonies". Therefore, Continental Nova Scotia, defined as Nova Scotian territory Northwest of the Chignecto Isthmus, became a separate colony called New Brunswick.
@@jeanbethencourt1506 its because of british agents that surrounded the french court at the time. Voltaire and other traitors of his kind, who sapped the will to fight from within...
The British occupied Maine East of the Penobscot River during the Revolution and War of 1812. Massachusetts did little to protect Maine, and for that reason Maine became it's own state in 1820.
@@geoffreyherrick298 That and the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was pushing for statehood, but wanted to be a slave state. Admitting it on its own would've given the slave states a majority in the US Senate, which the free states _absolutely_ didn't want. Maine was a free-soil area pushing to be a free state at the same time -- and since Massachusetts was willing to let it go by then...
The Nova Scotian revolutionaries actually managed to take fort Cumberland on the isthmus of chignecto for a short time. Also I’m glad you talked about the separate colonies rather than talking about it like Canada actually existed then, most people don’t do that.
Given that various posters are questioning the use of the name Quebec in 1776, some clarification is needed: 1) After France ceded Hudson's Bay, Acadia and Newfoundland to Great Britain in 1713, what was left of New France remained divided into two French colonies: Canada and Louisiana. Most of Acadia became the province of Nova Scotia, from which New Brunswick was later separated in 1784. 2) Following the Seven Years, the former colony of Canada was renamed the Province of Quebec by the British and that is the name which the colony held between 1763 and 1791. 3) In 1791, the British Parliament divided the Province of Quebec into Lower Canada and Upper Canada. 4) In 1840, Lower and Upper Canada were merged again into a single Province of Canada. 5) In 1867, the then existing Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were united into the Dominion of Canada, originally consisting of the (new) provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
The closer to England thing may have been less of a factor than you think. The prevailing winds blow the wrong way, so most sailing ships followed a circular route from England to the Caribbean to the East Cost of North America and back to England.
That's with 16th-17th technology and maps. I think by the late 18th century, the ships were getting better at direct transAtlantic commerce. And steam will be coming.
@@coledavis5212 thats why its called New Scotland (although for some reason, its English name is Latin, while, for example, its French name is French - Nouvelle Écosse) Now on the other hand I don't have a clue why New England is called New England, aside from the fact its directly to the south of New Scotland (like England and Scotland), and this is from someone who lived in New England for the last five years haha
@@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump it's new England because it was new England back then.. Most colonists were English.. Now it's mostly Hispanic and black..
I wanted to stress how accurate and timely all the maps are in these otherwise cartoonish History Matters videos. Such accuracy is hard to find online. Thanks.
Under the Articles of Confederation article XI, Canada was given an invitation to join the US at anytime. Canada referring to Quebec and Ontario. Article XI reads: "Canada acceding to this confederation, and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine States,”
You didn't mention how the colonies went to great lengths to try and get Quebec to join, even sending Benedict Arnold to lead an attack on Quebec City, which went so badly he lost his leg there
Yep. We in Nova Scotia (including the bit that would become New Brunswick) had little choice but to stay with Britain, what with being a heavily-fortified port (home to both the Navy and Britain's authorized privateers) and getting no support from the other colonies when we did try to join in and then being basically overrun with refugees (called the "Loyalists" up here) fleeing the war.
2 of my ancestors on my dad's side, were privateers for the British Navy. After the British lost the revolution, they headed to Nova Scotia, then also settled on Prince Edward Island, where there is a small town on the Northwest part of the island named after my last name.
I have American ancestors (a father and son, the dad fighting in the revolution for independence) from Pennsylvania in the 1790s, who ended up settling near what is know Oakville, Ontario. I have always wondered what that family thought when the War of 1812 broke out. Read the books Pierre Berton wrote on that war. Facinating stuff. Sent the books to the editor of BBC History Magazine back in 2012. Get editions of these books published by Canadian companies only. The American ones have been edited to make it a more comfortable read for Americans. Anchor Canada is one of the publishers in Canada.
Canadians fought in the Revolutionary Army, and were present in battles across the border region along the Great Lakes and (so far as I know) at the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania (and probably every battle in between, too). Not a mile from my home, Canadian volunteers joined American colonists in a raid on Staten Island which attacked the British Army headquarters for New York City located there (a portion of The Rose and Crown Inn, the building Howe was using at the time, is still standing). The Battles of Richmondtown and Old Blazing Star Ferry occurred when Rebel General John Sullivan mounted a raid which was designed to destroy the British outpost at Richmondtown (then the administrative center of the island) and take prisoners. The Continentals rowed their boats across the Arthur Kill from Elizabethtown (present-day Elizabeth, New jersey). The Rebel forces were routed in a matter of hours, but not before killing one of the leading British Commanders (Lt. Col. Dongan, a member of the family for whom the Dongan Hills section of the island is named) and taking approximately 80 prisoners. Approximately 250 Continentals were taken prisoner by the British. Casualties on either side were relatively light, given the small numbers of men involved (about 1,300 Continentals and roughly equal number of British, Hessians and New Jersey Loyalist Militias). If one tours the present site of Historic Richmondtown (a living museum dedicated to local history over the last 400 years, or so, going back to the Dutch colonies) evidence of the battle can still be found, particularly in St. Andrew's Church and it's adjoining cemetery, where stray bullets scarred tombstones and buildings.
@MrNorthernSol isn't that what the 13 colonies already have before they start protesting those taxes? They had colonial charters that allowed them to form their own local government.
I remember asking my proff about why Quebec did not join the american rebels particularly after France started helping them she listed the advantages given to Quebec by being under British rule(freedom of religion and other considerations) but also pointed out that there may have been a sentiment of resentment toward France among Quebec residents over France's failure to provide enough support during conflicts quebec had with the english before it was put under British rule
yeah, the "muh freedom of religion" canard is a joke. sure, the Puritans in Massachusetts didn't believe in it (they still don't, it's the most bigoted state in the US to this day, but now "liberal"). But the Colonies also had Virginia which was completely all-in on exactly the same rights-of-man stuff they were preaching in Louis XVI's France. For heaven's sake, the French imported most of that stuff from Virginia. And if the issue was that the Colonies didn't have Catholics, as I've noted here on this thread already, Maryland existed, and there were lots of Irish here.
This may be my favorite of your videos, a totally new question that seems strange no one has asked before and cataloguing sets of information right on the edges of where what we already know (being nerds) ends
It's been asked. Florida was English at the time too. It was given back to Spain after the revolution as a thanks for support. All of Louisiana territory was Spanish. The governor in new Orleans helped when he could. There was a battle of San Luis. St Louis proper was never attacked. The British were repealed before they got to the city.
I can only imagine an alternate history where the USA didn’t revolt, eventually became a dominion and finally an independent commonwealth nation... the Queen would be on the money and we’d probably have much different states and borders with our neighbors.
@@bingola45 Possibly not. As History Matters has pointed out, half the slaves in the British Empire were in the American South. American independence made it that much easier for Britain to abolish slavery, and that much harder for the US to do so.
@@bingola45 Like I said, it's possible, but it would have been harder had the southern slave states remained, because there would be more slaves and more powerful landed interests to oppose the end of slavery. American independence took with it half of Britain's slaves, making it that much easier for Britain to abolish slavery when it did so,
@@si91 Slavery was abolished throughout the Empire. The decision was made. The only reason slavery continued in North America was because the colonies who had left the Empire continued to condone it.
Fun fact (because everybody gets this wrong): the Proclamation Line of 1763 no longer existed by the time of the American Revolution. By then, a series of treaties with the Iroquois (Fort Stanwix, Hard Labour, and Lochaber) had resulted in a much stranger and uglier-looking border between the 13 colonies and the Indian Reserve.
that was called 'Appellation line' meaning it was 'to be named by an appellate court' (as the empire grew and incorporated the land when the King needed)... the USA bastardizes the line as 'Appalachians'...
@@martymethuselah That would be hilarious if it were true, but reality is actually pretty boring. Spanish explorers named the mountains after the Apalachee people who lived at their base
@@martymethuselah So what? I can speak French. I also know what false cognates are, and there is absolutely no historical evidence for your contention that that is where the name comes from. The mountains were named by the Spanish after the Apalachee people. It is a known fact.
@@subscribeofficial7134 Ahh I see. Well, we are worried in fact. There's a constant stream of illegal weapons flowing into Canada from the criminal organizations on both sides of the border. Not to mention the way the hate propaganda is playing out on certain people in our country. And Trump sending out signals to the fringe elements like "civil war like fractures" it really is getting worrisome.
It doesn't really make sense to kill your siblings, parents, cousins, aunts, and uncles back in the UK, when you're going to form a new country of your own in the end anyway. Look at the USA today how they love the UK and practically think the UK's queen is their queen.
You missed one rather large reason for French in North America no siding with the rebels, they had just suffered a rather humiliating defeat at the hands of the British during the 7 years war, but yet managed to gain the prized position you described. They simply weren't willing to risk it all again for (what for them would be only) minimal gains
You have the incorrect Union Jack in the video. It should be the pre-1801 Union Jack without St Patrick's Cross, as Ireland wasn't formally part of the Union at that point.
michael avila Good point, also It is not a Union Jack it is a Union Flag. It is only a Union Jack when flown on the Jack staff of a ship. Flown upside down (as in the video) on a ship is a sign of distress
Wow. As a Canadian history teacher I often am horribly disappointed by the lack of Canadian content or horribly inaccurate information. This was a fantastic video that hit nearly all the marks. Bravo! More Canada please!
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1:26 everyone forgets the currency act; it bared the colonies from using locally printed currency, and required that the colonies only use the pound silver as currency, which were in short supply. If there's not enough currency to be traded economic activity gets stifled.
Canada was called Canadien in French by the settlers even before the British took New France including Quebec, but yeah, it didn't exist cos at the time it was British America. Canada came into exist when Parliament in London decided to give their colony new self governing statue in mid 19th century, thus the name Canada came into exist.
"Canada" back then were the colonies of upper canada and lower canada. The prairies were "ruperts land" owned by the HBC directly and BC was "colony of BC" with Vancouver Island being a separate colony for awhile and none of those other places thought of themselves as "Canadian" until joining confederation. New Brunswick Nova Scotia and PEI was the same thing in terms of being separate and Newfoundland didnt join Canada until 1948 it was pretty reluctantly Newfoundland even sent it's own units to fight in WW2 not as part of Canada. For the longest time actually "Canada" just meant "the british owned territories along the st lawrence and great lakes" and it expanded pretty gradually.
There actually were some Canadians that did serve with the Continental Army following the failed invasion of Quebec in 1775-76. Throughout the war, Moses Hazen was the commanding officer of several hundred French Canadians who served in Washington’s army; with my own ancestor, Antoine Paulint serving in this group as a Captain of the regiment’s light company. You can read about these French Canadian patriots in the book “Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution” by Allan Everest, as well as “Congress's Own: A Canadian Regiment, the Continental Army, and American Union” by Holly Mayer.
There were also many loyalists who went to Canada after independence. The war of rebellion in America was not as one sided as it is made out to be. After fighting a war for eight years two thousand miles away over thirteen colonies that produced little profit the British gave up and put their money into the west indies. The America of today was many years away after it was bought from the Spanish, French and British.
Note for any future videos about Canada: the "u" is silent in "Quebec." The province's name comes from an Algonquin word, "kébec," meaning "strait" or "narrow passage," or, more romantically, "where the river narrows." Brits and Americans pronounce it "Qwebec," likely because of English words like question or quandary, but "qu-" words in French are just a solid "k" sound, so depending on whether you are an Anglo or Franco Canadian, you'd pronounce it "Kuh-beck" or "Kay-beck."
2:45 I was playing EU4 the same time and the game was paused. Suddenly I hear naval battle effects. I am in the middle of stealing Global Trade from Genoa so I panicked
Thank you very much, this is extremely good and it's a topic that is rarely discussed in American history. Certainly not as adequately as you have done. The only addition I would suggest, one that would take it be on 5 minutes and might be a interesting separate video, would be to include the other three North American colonies of East and West Florida and the Bahamas. None of them had many people but there was some limited action in all of them. The Continental Navy took Freeport in the Bahamas, for example, hoping to Ransom it back. They were unsuccessful in that. But it was extremely interesting. Thank you again. I consider this to be a very valuable contribution, as is the entire body of your work
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Interesting how nuanced and varied the reasons are for what happened in North America. Of course for a long time, Quebec were never quite happy in Canada, a view that has fallen for a long time, as I hope repeats in Scotland over separation.
I'm from canada and this place blows, Toronto is a crime ridden hellhole wherein people get fucking shanked, shot, or even drove over by criminals, gangs, or depressed youth.
@kwazooplayingguardsman I’m Canadian and I have this friend who lives in such a fucked up neighbor hood he just had like a 20 something year old guy get fucking stabbed like a bunch of times and it was so brutal the guy had to go down to Toronto I think
Good video. Very informative. Some of your videos are not as in depth as i would prefer. But others, including this one, really hits the spot with being both on point an sufficiently explanatory. I learned a lot in a short amount of time. Thank you
French Canadiens got a good deal from their new British rulers after France abandoned them. They could keep their language, laws, and religion. Also, the Catholic Church opposed rebellion which was essentially their only source of knowledge at the time. Great video!
It wasn’t a good deal, it was a Trojan horse meant to slowly assimilate French Canadians with them welcoming their own, slow disappearance. It was a good strategy from a British point of view, as French is almost non-existent outside of Québec, except for part of New-Brunswick and some towns in Ontario.
@@Ogilla To be fair, the Durham report made the difference. At first, Britain just wanted to keep Canada peaceful and under the fold. The idea that the French and Catholics had to become second class citizens only arrived decades later, in the 1830s.
Regarding Nova Scotia's situation, you shouldn't overlook the impact of the Acadian Expulsion after the French/Indian wars. Basically, by the time the America Revolution occurred, a significant portion of the population not loyal to the British Empire had been forced to leave 15 years earlier. This is actually the origin of Cajun culture.
There's a book "A Great and Noble Scheme" concerning that. The Acadians weren't even disloyal; they just chose to sit out the Seven Years War. Quebec lost and got to keep being French. The Acadians didn't even side with Quebec and had to leave.
I did read somewhere that what was to become New Brunswick did have sympathy and some minor acts but were divided and basically overwhelmed. Plus distance from Colonal forces were to far and through wilderness and harsher climate.
Canada was primarily a fur-trading colony, and its main agricultural product is wheat, these relied protection from British soldiers, and access to the British market. Furthermore, much of the early colonisation in Canada were conducted through missionaries, which relied protection from British soldiers, this occurred in places such as Ontario, and Quebec.
As a student, learning English, I still remember text about history of acts, that leaded to revolutionary wars, on one of our listening exam. There even was question about < Taxation without representation >...
@@---675 Georgia was the only prison colony in north America and even then most of the people living there either moved there because they wanted to or they were born there, thus not if wasn't majority convicts
@Josip Back when I was learning Spanish I always found it harder to write the arrows and got yelled at by many a teacher (It was a bilingual school so we had all our classes in Spanish for 3 days a week)
@Josip The school is in the city of Boston in the U.S. I went to it until 6th grade. Twice a week we'd have "English days" and three times a week we'd have "Spanish days". We'd even recite the pledge of allegiance in Spanish.
The only thing you possibly could have added is that the Quebec Act was in no small part to ensure loyalty of the French there as seeds of rebellion grew in the Colonies. Otherwise pretty awesome!
@@siegfriedsassoon5071 Everyone knows how gentle and loving Father George Washington was and could not tell a lie. He loved everyone so much that he was our first president.
