Canada

The Webster Ashburton Treaty settled the U.S.-Canada border dispute, especially in Maine, and clarified boundaries around the Great Lakes. It also established extradition rules for serious crimes and committed both nations to patrol the African coast to suppress the slave trade. The treaty affirmed…

<p><span class="deck"> The old frontier began to die as the “medicine line” of the 49th Parallel was drawn</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The river that disappointed him bears his name, but Alexander Mackenzie’s great achievement in slogging to the Pacific is now almost forgotten.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> By a brilliant maneuver young James Wolfe conquered “impregnable” Quebec—and secured North America for the English-speaking peoples</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Only Sir William Johnson, living among them in feudal splendor, won and kept the confidence of the Iroquois.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> From a way Down East came a stench of politics and potatoes, and news of a border incident that true patriots will long remember as</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Between the ages of fifteen and twenty, young Peter Rindisbacher captured on canvas the lives of Indians and white pioneers on the Manitoba—Minnesota frontier</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The key to control of Canada was a city whose defenders doubted they could hold out for long once the American Rebels attacked</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Man Who Invented Himself</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When their side lost the Revolution, New Englanders who had backed Britain packed up, sailed north, and established the town of St. Andrews, New Brunswick. It still flourishes.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Explore the capital of Nova Scotia, formerly called the Fourteenth Colony, to find a mutual past.</span></p>