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What Prevented the US From Trampling Canada in 1871?

What Prevented the US From Trampling Canada in 1871?
A statue of Canada’s first prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 3, 2021. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
C.P. Champion
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In March 1871, Sir John A. Macdonald was visiting Washington, D.C., with his wife Agnes and four distinguished Englishmen. One of them, Lord de Grey and Ripon, a British cabinet minister, brought his cook on the trip to ensure they all ate properly.

C.P. Champion
C.P. Champion
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C.P. Champion, Ph.D., is the author of two books, was a fellow of the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University in 2021, and edits The Dorchester Review magazine, which he founded in 2011.
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