Canadians in the Civil War

DJ and boards show light shelf wear. Gift inscription on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. ; 9.1 X 6.0 X 1.6 inches; 413 pages; With the lure of a bounty of $200.00 thousands of Canadians were drawn in to fight for the North during the US Civil War, some others were dragooned into service. 5,000 of these men lost their lives in action. "During the American Civil War, Toronto, Montreal, St. Catharines and Halifax welcomed a well-financed network of Confederate spies and adventurers, bringing the war close to home with organized raids on Lake Erie and the border town of St. Albans, Vermont, where Confederate raiders were successfully defended by prominent Quebec politician J.C. Abbott, a future prime minister. Montreals St. Lawrence Hall Hotel had so many Confederates living there it offered mint juleps on its menu. It also afforded visits by John Wilkes Booth, who made several trips to Toronto as part of an organized plot leading up to the Good Friday 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps the most lasting impact on Canada was Sir John A. Macdonalds conviction that strong states rights were the great source of weakness, which led to the war. Thats why Canada emerged in 1867 with a strong federal governmentincluding an unelected Senatewhich to this day fosters endless debate between the believers of federal rights and provincial rights."

Product Info

ISBN: 1552784509

ISBN-13: 9781552784501

Publisher: McArthur & Company

Year: 2004

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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AinsworthBooks

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Country: Canada