Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

Robert Hailman wrote:

> > [...] the First Continental
> > Congress in 1776.
Oops, I meant 1774.

> >  Halifax being the only deepwater port (at the time)
> > on the Eastern seaboard, the British kept it even more firmly in
> > hand than New York City.
> >
>
> Well, my question here is whether Halifax had any intention of joining
> the U.S.
In 1774 there was no concept of the "U.S.", only British North America,
with a basically common set of interests.  In the end, the colonies
north of Massachusetts Bay did not participate in armed rebellion.

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