GGR246H1 : Forging a Canadian Nation - Lecture 3

• School: UTSG
• Department: Geography
• Course: GGR246H1
• Professor: Joseph Laydon

Document Summary

Nation refers to people, a people that have a common culture, something that unifies them, country is a political, was created from politics, u can t have a nation without country, and you cant have a country without nation! Canada and us shouldn t have separated, since both countries share same geographical regions north to south orientation. Impact of the american war of independence (most of the stuff are the reactions of what is happening in north america. Once the britain lost is colony, it became weak. y simcoe s upper canada (loyalist settlers, american immigration war of 1812 immigration reconsidered) the british wanted to create a system that would strongly be loyal to the crown. Therefore they needed settlers, that would fit into this consideration. First group of loyalist were settled in southern ontario, close to the borders of u. s. U. s and canada, used to be losen, and people would come to canada, because land was cheap here.