Canada East - Politics

Politics

There was a danger of Fenian raids along the Canadian-American border south and east of Montreal.

The British government did not want a repeat of the 1830s rebellions, for fear of losing two more colonies to the United States.

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    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.
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    Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)