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How the U.S. could in fact make Canada an American territory

  • Written by Robert Huish, Associate Professor in International Development Studies, Dalhousie University

“We take nothing by conquest…Thank God,” wrote the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, an influential Washington newspaper, in February 1847.

The United States had just purchased 55 per cent of Mexico for US$15 million as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The pact concluded the bloody Mexican-American War,...

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