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A Merged History
of Canada and The United States
by Bill Jones
Foreword:
Two great countries enjoy a friendly and cooperative spirit with common ancestry. Never before have two countries peacefully shared such broad common interests. Borders between are largely un-guarded. Citizens from both sides travel freely to and from without need for passport, visa or pre-arrangement. It is almost as if they are one nationality, but they are both fiercely independent and are strongly nationalistic.Both countries began as colonies of European powers. One broke its ties with Britain through war, the other retained its ties, prideful of its British heritage. The two countries compete in trade but do so in friendship and generally with respectful cooperation. Even the United States, having fought a war of Independence with Britain, later became its ally in other wars and its peaceful partner, thus restoring a historical affinity, kinship, and tradition.
Almost all political events during the past 200 years have meaning to both countries. Both countries share an odyssey of courage, endurance, frontier life, hardship, as well as sharing a long enduring and shameful genocide of the Native Americans who were murdered and displaced from their lands. Thus, it seems to be appropriate to chronicle a history of the two Countries together.
The events chronicled are close enough together to allow one to visualize spending a portion of one's lifetime at places during historical times. Imagine, for instance, living as a serf under a baron at Nova Scotia during the 1620s. Or, living with the Metis during their try for independence from 1870-1885.
It was very tempting to expound upon the history of individual sea voyages conducted by the British Admiralty over the past 400 years. The colonization of North America could not have occurred, nor could they have survived except for these early voyages. Sea power spelled the success of the British in becoming the dominant power in North America. Perhaps another article will detail these accounts of sea adventures. The reader is left to interpret the historical effects that caused a fall of colonialism and the emergence of two independent Nations.
A Synopsis of Related Events and Circumstances by Time Lines
