Why didn't Canada join the American Revolution? (Short Animated Documentary)

[@wesleyfravel5149]

I will never get sick of these characters squinting with signs saying “soon” on them.

[@TexasKosmonawt]

*SOON*

[@haroldellis9721]

I want to dress up as one for Halloween.

[@prstudios3256]

@@haroldellis9721 That would be fun

[@chancellorjake]

It's the best part of these videos. I smile every time.

[@SamAronow]

We need more skipping through daisies though.

[@admiralnam3228]

1774 Act . French colonists were allowed to keep their laws and practice Catholicism. That’s why they weren’t too interested in the revolution

[@DavBlc7]

If you mean the French Revolution then the French colonists still loyal to the old monarchy in their mother country at the time even though they were under British rule. They hate the republicans for the murder of King Louis XVI when news of the king being executed came through to Quebec.

[@lockyhocky2]

@@DavBlc7 He obviously meant the American Revolution, which is the talking point of the video

[@kevcaratacus9428]

French joined the yanks during the war of independence in fighting against the British The french also paid for your statue of liberty sometime in 1880s Proper bum chums the yanks & the French .

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

@@kevcaratacus9428 until Americans start those France surrender memes, I guess.

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@@kevcaratacus9428 um the statue was a gift

[@cmhealy14]

My favourite explanation for why Canada didn't join the revolution is that Canadians had a choice to being ruled by Brits in Washington or Brits in London. And London was further away. :)

[@gewhiz1494]

Brilliant

[@zedazeda9450]

@@gewhiz1494 absolutely brilliant

[@zedazeda9450]

👏👏👏

[@nerfherder4284]

Canada had the most potential: French cuisine American government and British know-how Unfortunately they got: American cuisine French know-how and British government ....sorry Canada

[@nerfherder4284]

@kc korea Britons sort of, but no Britain is a commonwealth made up of peoples as similar looking as say Koreans, Japanese and Chinese with all the included differences 😂✌🏻

[@bigbruh4399]

Newfoundland has an almost separate history from the rest of Canada, to a certain extent. They stayed under British rule and almost didn't even become a part of Canada.

[@Countrybananas]

Newfoundland was it's own country just like Canada between 1907 and 1934 before falling back into british dependency due to its massive contribution to WW1 that wiped out an entire generation of young men. Between that, a cross island railway, and the great depression the country was in to much debt. However, by the end of WW2 its economy was even better then Britains for a time and they held a vote between becoming a country again, joining Canada, or joining the US. The vote was split almost 50/50 between country and joining Canada but as you see who the slight edge went to Newfoundland joined confederation in 1949. That is why Newfoundland is so distinct from the rest of Canada we're Newfoundlanders first, Canadians second.

[@marsbolcan9311]

@@Countrybananas While joining the US was a fairly popular sentiment, the UK blocked any such option from being included on the ballot. The three options were a return to responsible government (our constitution restored and our democracy returned, which by the way was guaranteed to happen when it was suspended), join Canada, or remain under commission government for another 5 years. Returning to responsible government won the first vote although with slightly less than majority of the vote. Responsible government was the legitimate winner but people in power who had agendas saw the opportunity to change the rules of the referendum to get a second go at making Newfoundland a province of Canada and held a second referendum not including the least popular option being a continuation of commission of government.

[@razzberry6180]

@@Countrybananas I want our NFLD Red Ensign back (Or in the very least, the Tricolour), and get rid of that fucking geometry set we have for one now. (And our original abbreviation as Ive used above while we arebat it)

[@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump]

@@razzberry6180 While we're at it, lets go back to the Canadian red ensign in place of the maple leaf flag. I personally think these old fashioned flags with crests and such are much cooler looking and more representative than bland geometrical shapes (for the most part)

[@razzberry6180]

@@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump I have the 1922-57 Candian Red Ensign hanging up in my room. I have it there to inspire me to do my best everyday as our young boys fought literal evil to ensure our liberty. Can we have Maple Leaf Forever back too? 😂

[@Envy_me94]

Canada, Australia and New Zealand didn't need to fight a war for independence. We just waited a little over a hundred years and asked nicely.

[@johanreillo8403]

Translesbian Helicopter 🤣🤣🤣 it funny but they saved lives doing that

[@NoName-be8vp]

Translesbian Helicopter they didn’t lose nobody when they did it 🗿 wouldn’t that make them smarter

[@gyumii]

Richard Johnson commonwealth is an alliance, nothing more. We remain friends, but the British hold no power over us since before ww2.

[@jamesmiller2521]

America runaway from mom when she was a teen, Canada got her own house after college, and Falkland is 30 y.o. lazy fuck who still lives with mom.

[@jeopardized9293]

@Richard Johnson we choose to be we can leave at anytime like india

[@xtrememanster]

"Nova Scotia was far less urbanized" I'm from the maritimes (what previously was saint johns island and Nova Scotia), and its rather fun to learn our eternal poverty isn't actually recent, its historical. It truly is funny to learn how my province was throughout all of history the hub of the poor.

[@rajkaranvirk7525]

I thought its better now though no? Nova Scotia just hit 1 million people, so isn't it better?

[@xtrememanster]

@@rajkaranvirk7525 better then it was in the past but not better then the rest of Canada or New England. In relative terms we're still poor and rather rural.

[@t3hgraemek]

@@rajkaranvirk7525 people from Ontario and BC are moving here in large numbers because it's cheaper to live here lol, its not so bad. Definitely rural though. The economy wasn't in the best shape because several key industries collapsed/moved in the 20th century (plus Quebec gets special treatment and the United States has historically imposed tariffs on goods from the maritimes) but things are picking back up.

[@rajkaranvirk7525]

@@xtrememanster Ah, I understand

[@xtrememanster]

@Zoomer you don’t even know what the word means

[@joelthomastr]

1:25 Britain: Pay up nerds 2:05 Rupert's Land: Can't stamp a fish!

[@ianhilmer2493]

Rupert’s land wasn’t fish it was furs, Newfoundland was fish.

[@Countrybananas]

@@ianhilmer2493 Exactly

[@seyhanalparslan1839]

stamp.

[@seanhartnett79]

Lol. True. Kind of.

[@flameBMW245]

@yeoldebiggetee stamp

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Canada: Sorry George but we want to stick with Britain And that's where the apologies began

[@appleslover]

Eh..

[@SamAronow]

*Sorey

[@number1kenyan]

Sam Aronow no that’s wrong Avery the Cuban American spelt it the correct way

[@aleksandarvil5718]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MarshallTheArtist]

DispicableHD Sam spelled it with a Midwestern accent.

[@TheFirefox]

After the end of the Revolutionary War, most loyalists in the 13 colonies moved north to Canada (the “United Empire Loyalists”). This shifted the demographics in the Canadian colonies, which had been predominantly French. These demographic shifts made it less likely that Canadians would join the U.S. at a later date.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

Ontario (then the western part of Quebec) was barely anything at the time, as far as colonization by Europeans was concerned. Nominally British, supposedly French in another sense, but really just extremely lightly populated and undeveloped. Ontario was for the most part founded by Americans not keen on the Revolution. A great many had been seriously persecuted when the war wrapped up-shunned, their homes and possessions confiscated, etc. (This is of course no contradiction of what you said, only some more detail on Ontario.)

[@cme98]

@@dixonpinfold2582 as an American I confirm you are entirely correct. You were more than nice of the revolution resulting when London taxed wealthy plantation owners for the 7 year war. who could afford paying the tax, the colonies standard of living surpassed even the British who still had to pay people who worked the land while Americans turned slavery into a highly profitable slave breeding industry and slaves, since 1619 literally built the entire infrastructure of wealth in the colonies. Any European coming to the colonies was guaranteed a better life if they had a skill & minimal education. They were so desperate they hired a woman to print the official copy of the declaration of independemce sent to parliament members which the only surviving copy resurfaced in the restoration of a house owned by a Parliament employee or member which revealed the womans name & address stamped proudly in print as then publisher of the treasonist document. Proving she had guts and was brainwashed from the mass psychosis which soon followed later. Most colonist’s were stupid illiterate hillbillies even the poorest British would be appalled by. Imagine having everything taken because you dared call the slave owners bluff. Because that was the first Congress, slave owners who knew what was coming after the November 1, 1755 earthquake/tsunami/fire that leveled Lisbon. It was an act of God for creating the slave trade to the terrified Portugese. That only made the Americans wealthier & the British were clamping down on slavery. Jealousy of American wealth had to have pissed the British off after copies of the declaration were sent all over the globe. Only enemies of the British recognized the document & all 4 provided aide. But non got involved directly until Benjamin Franklin Ambassadorto France notified the King his execution was on the horizon. The French loved him. They never knew any hillbillies from America except their own in Canada & wrote them off. Ben Franklin was a brilliant man, a genius to be precise & for years he worked on the French when most colonists were pissed for the French paying out money for every American scalp local aboriginals hacked off even more for the British for a war London forced upon colonists to fight & pay for. The colonists coming accross a group of bloodied scalpless soldiers must of caused insanity from constant paranoia & it worked. The french speaking Canada was insurance to Ontario because you had to enter PTSD land from the trauma of scalping just to get to Ontario. They feared the French & half of Americans hate them to this day when we owe our creation to the French monarchy who were executed immediately after helping. Americans went on to a civil war which the British would have averted by destroying the plantation privileged culture that emerged after the British surrender. It was modeled after the French sense of fashion proving the rich knew what sacrifice the French made. The general white public were still stupid poor & undereducated. Plantations hired them as brutal managers which made slaves fear them but trust their owners. This continued after the civil war when SEGREGATION-REPLACED SLAVERY. Blacks or women of any type were not free until immediately following the CIA assassination involvement of JFK. It turned the Vice President now President johnson into a mean determined revengeful Texan who used every dirty trick he could including (graphic) placing his penis in the hand of one politician and said you cant beat that but it will destroy your career so help me god if you dare support segregation. The landmark civil rights bill not only freed blacks it freed women and eventually gays & transgender. It literally changed culture and made bitter losers abandon their Dixiecrat party & rewrite Republicans into the racist party it is today. Americans are prisoners from the very republic plantation owners created after the revolution. Congress has all the power. Americans cant even vote except in 26 states ruled by a federal totalitarian govt. The vote for President is done by the electoral college because the Plantation feared the people having any control. America is no different than the peoples republic of china. Its just that we have 2 parties china has one. But we are both Republics. Russia? Republic. We are not a democracy. People can vote in a democracy. Congress votes for us instead. Its impossible to vote congress out. Only congress can fire a rep from the states. States cant even recall their own Congress they elected. They have to wait it out it takes 30 years for any state to gain power. By then, they Are corrupt. aAt least Canada can call for a national vote. Congress never will. Never has except for the corrupt president election. I did not vote for Trump but respect when he said when he ran against Hillary, “i know how corrupt the system is, i got rich off it!”

[@dixonpinfold2582]

@@cme98 I can't make out your meaning in your second-last sentence. Interesting reply, though. Thanks.

[@zimriel]

Underrated comment. I've always considered New Brunswick and the peninsula of Ontario (Upper Canada) to be "the anti-States". They were organised as provinces exactly because so many American Loyalists moved there

[@VivaBoricua93]

Something similar happened in the former Spanish empire where loyalists fled Mexico and South America to settle in Cuba and Puerto Rico and why they were the last vestiges of the Spanish Empire in the Americas

[@xaviersaavedra7442]

Plus after the war of independence, a lot of loyalists fled to Quebec.

[@martymethuselah]

it is ok now...USA has so much 'winning' today under Trump.. hehe..look at Japan..they use Jedi anime mind tricks to make USA happy to repay for wars...USA is special...they are broke and crazy but they are special and have big gargantuan penis...

[@gabrieldnchf2822]

marty methuselah huh??

[@xaviersaavedra7442]

@@gabrieldnchf2822 agreed

[@TheGM-20XX]

@@martymethuselah that is some fine tism.

[@TheGM-20XX]

@@martymethuselah trying to hard out of 10.

[@danukil7703]

Always wondered about this. Thank you! And please, don't hesitate about also uploading 10-minute videos like you used to! :)

[@haroldellis9721]

More History Matters video is good video.

[@underfire131]

Yeah if you could do longer videos that would be awesome!

[@Lord_Foxy13]

Yeah we didn’t mind paying our taxes

[@Phil-ui4tm]

ADD keeps viewers away from those

[@nickcormier8571]

Plus Canucks didn't want anything to do with people who removed the "u" from honour

[@flutterwind7686]

I think that happened after the separation

[@AdmiralBonetoPick]

It was actually only in the 1910s that a bunch of American newspaper editors started the campaign to 'rationalise' the English language (and save space in their newspapers) by removing letters to shorten words. Some of the changes stuck (defence to defense, colour to color, calibre to caliber, catalogue to catalog), but others did not (surprise to surprize, addressed to addresst, press to pres, boat to bot). As late as the 1950s, you can still see some magazines spelling through as 'thru', and although as 'altho', but eventually they gave up on these too.

[@ZephLodwick]

@@AdmiralBonetoPick I legitimately think that someone needs to change the way English is spelled so it makes sense. For example, English doesn't spells both the TH sound in 'the' the same way as the TH sound in 'thistle'. In Welsh, they are spelled TH and DD respectively. Also, why do so many words end in GH (through, although, etc)! It also doesn't held that English can't decide which diphthongs correspond to which sounds.

[@ZephLodwick]

@Blaze Temp I'm a native English speaker, but if the language is to gain international use, as it has done in the past hundred years, I think it's spelling should be consistent.

[@flutterwind7686]

@@ZephLodwick You have it backwards. Due to the fact that everyone's pronunciation around the world is different, spelling needs to stay the same. Having "Indian English" and "American English" and "South African English" in WRITING is doing the world no favours. The spellings are the way they are because they came from other languages, too little too late, if you want to change the spelling, you have to first convince a majority of English speakers around the world why your specific spelling is better. Good Luck with that

[@cannonball666]

Britain: We're taxing your tea more. Canada: We drink beer, get hosed, eh.

[@leokennedy7624]

Racist KKK member detected; not all Canadians speak like that.

[@coledavis5212]

Leo Kennnedy Traitor to the empire detected; you forgot country people live in canada

[@user-zv2gb9pq9b]

get hosed? never in my time have i heard that. a hoser is synonymous with a loser but to hose someone down with water after a hockey game would be just rude and also land you a shit kicking. spy detected.

[@Sam-ju7nd]

@@leokennedy7624 good one lol

[@leokennedy7624]

ExplodingHam Not all Canadians say the word “eh” at the end of their sentence. That’s a myth made by the KKK and the GOP

[@Callsign_Prophet]

"The people in the UK barely have representation so what makes you so special" rekt

[@itzimperiumxvi2620]

nickys34 while having access to free healthcare.. get rekt

[@illiteratethug3305]

@nickys34 Until you look at actual statistics regarding dental hygiene, and realise US is, like most other things, far far behind.. Brush your fucking teeth America.

[@aaa-vx8ke]

ItzImperium XVI free healthcare is overrated. Too long waiting lines

[@itzimperiumxvi2620]

-14 subscribers with no videos so? I’d rather have a system that’s fair and saves lives. It’s for the people that need it.

[@aaa-vx8ke]

ItzImperium XVI the people that “need” it have it covered under welfare. Most normal people have insurance here also, without the month wait for surgery instead of instant here.

[@tyrport]

I’m so glad your videos have remained concise & short.

[@Miqa.99]

They didn’t say *“please”*

[@pittapatta3514]

That would be historically impossible. Us brits are too awkward and antisocial to not say please and sorry in every other sentence

[@hedgehog3528]

This make anybody think about rookies in the Clone Wars?

[@saundyuk]

@Brad Sanchez It's because you live on vast continent-spanning land masses where you could spread out more (sorry Kiwis, apart from you guys obviously). Politeness and strict social etiquette are the product of societies that live in close proximity. Just remember, there are as many Brits living on a tiny island as there are the ENTIRE combined populations of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. You see the same thing, culturally, with the Japanese. Small, overpopulated island: Very polite people who try to avoid conflict (with each other). Large, relatively spread out continent-spanning nations: Rude, blunt and don't give a shit if they cause offence.

[@Achillez098]

"Can't stamp a fish" That needs to be a shirt xD

[@pavv7741]

I'm from an Indian family in Nova Scotia who were one of those responsible for the sack of Dartmouth, and thus ironically helped cement my Canadian citizenship

[@r3stl3ss]

what sack? in whose mouth????

[@thorskjelver8564]

I love this channel. The blunt deadpan british style is just so perfect for history and misdirection humor.

[@Dayvit78]

I like how you went over each of the areas. Specifically New Brunswick and Nova Scotia - had hardly any people at all at that time, especially after the British forced the Acadians to leave. In fact, because of all the open land, it was where alot of the loyalists went after American independence (there's one town named after the admiral who sailed them up there).

[@jeanbethencourt1506]

I forgot about that. Didn't the English slaughter a bunch of Acadians or worked them to death?

[@ThisCharmlessMan]

@@jeanbethencourt1506 No, they were just kicked out and most moved to Louisiana

[@jeanbethencourt1506]

@@ThisCharmlessMan many thousands died during the forced expulsion.

[@Slo-ryde]

@@jeanbethencourt1506 a fair number of them managed to migrate into Maine, Mass. There are quite a few people there with French sounding last names.

[@mcuddy799]

The flag of New Brunswick has a ship on it to symbolize the Loyalists who fled their homes to settle there.

[@0202-t3h]

"The people in Britain itself barely had any representation, so what makes you so special?"

[@keeganpenney169]

Nova Scotian here. Port Willians township almost suceeded but then apparently Kings Orange Rangers came from some loyal city and marched between what is now north kentville and port William's with muskets loaded for a month straight and they decided not to cause any more fuss.

[@aleckushmerek1757]

I think Nova Scotia should've joined the U.S even if none of the others did. I hold a fond place in my heart for it as most Bostonians do. My family migrated from Nova Scotia in the 1800s. Thanks for the Christmas trees and I hope you all like the improved version of Halifax, my great grandfather worked on it.

[@keeganpenney169]

@@aleckushmerek1757 it's better then that smoking crator the french made us lol. I appreciate Boston's help and we'll always be allies, thanks and your welcome for the trees!

[@carson1429]

Us acadians would've probably helped however we had recently been deported and were figuring things out.

[@paulmoir4452]

@@aleckushmerek1757 And any Bostonian will forever be welcome in any Haligonian house . However we stand by our choice not to enter the revolution.

[@aleckushmerek1757]

@@paulmoir4452 Well that's perfectly fine, thank you.

[@Brian-----]

this was accurate and answered many interesting questions - Newfoundland: Too remote, too easily suppressed - Nova Scotia: Britain *won the war militarily* in this colony, as the rebellion could not sustain and the regular military presence was too strong (New Brunswick was separated in 1784; this begs the question of whether Maine would have had a different fate had it not been part of Massachusetts, a highly developed, maximally rebellious colony) - St. John's Island / PEI: its fate depended on neighboring areas - Quebec: Once the American invasion failed, and with the St. Lawrence facilitating British control and the British having granted Catholicism its place, there was little reason for Quebec to side with the Americans; it is curious that France after 1778 didn't seem to care about it anymore and that Quebec didn't seem to care about using the war to restore France to North America; also there were some British victories elsewhere in the world war after Yorktown, even once America was lost, that helped boost its negotiating position against France, Spain, and Netherlands.

[@jeanbethencourt1506]

Quebeckers didn't try to restore French rule because that would require fighting and risk. As you can see throughout colonial history in the new world Britain had a much more difficult time attempting to take colonies from Spain than they did from France. Even a very weak Spain in decline dealt some humiliating blows to Britain. Something France could never achieve. Even during its peak.

[@HalifaxHercules]

The British Empire partitioned Nova Scotia due to concerns that their Halifax based colonial government were not meeting the needs of Continental Nova Scotia whom were experiencing population growth as a result of the British Loyalist exodus from "The 13 Colonies". Therefore, Continental Nova Scotia, defined as Nova Scotian territory Northwest of the Chignecto Isthmus, became a separate colony called New Brunswick.

[@monsieurdubitatif8567]

@@jeanbethencourt1506 its because of british agents that surrounded the french court at the time. Voltaire and other traitors of his kind, who sapped the will to fight from within...

[@geoffreyherrick298]

The British occupied Maine East of the Penobscot River during the Revolution and War of 1812. Massachusetts did little to protect Maine, and for that reason Maine became it's own state in 1820.

[@AaronOfMpls]

@@geoffreyherrick298 That and the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was pushing for statehood, but wanted to be a slave state. Admitting it on its own would've given the slave states a majority in the US Senate, which the free states _absolutely_ didn't want. Maine was a free-soil area pushing to be a free state at the same time -- and since Massachusetts was willing to let it go by then...

[@benthomason3307]

"The people living in _Britain Proper_ barely had any representation, so what makes you so special?" As an American, I have _never_ known this before.

[@AaronOfMpls]

Yah, before the 1830s, England/Britain itself hadn't redistricted much in the centuries since Parliament had gained significant power. And the demographics had certainly changed in that time. Some districts had no or almost no people, yet still were Parliamentary Boroughs that elected 2 MPs each.* While new industrial cities like Manchester had no MPs of their own, and were lumped in with nearby rural areas. And pretty much everywhere, you had to be a landowner to vote. The growing threat of revolution finally prompted a reform in 1832, to equal-population constituencies with sensible borders. EDIT: And yes, Matt G's comment too. In both Britain itself and the colonies, only landowning men could vote. But compared to Britain itself, a much larger percentage of men in the colonies owned enough property to qualify. And while they could vote for local governments and the colonies' own legislatures, they couldn't vote for actual MPs (and could only send lobbyists). And more than a century of mostly hands-off rule meant it wasn't clear just how much power Parliament was "supposed" to have over the colonies and their legislatures. * The really low-population districts were called "rotten boroughs" or "pocket boroughs", because their voting populations were small enough for a landowner -- or a small group of landowners -- to buy off and/or threaten a majority into voting as instructed. ...Especially since votes were cast _out loud_ in public back then. They included places like... - *Dunwich, Suffolk* -- Medieval port city, whose river changed course away from the town, leading to a.) the harbor silting up, and b.) the town gradually falling into the sea. Population 232 in 1831, with 32 voters, yet it still elected 2 MPs. - *Newtown, Isle of Wight* -- Old port on the Isle of Wight, destroyed in a 1377 war between England and France. It rebuilt, but gradually lost out to more defensible ports like Newport. Population 68 by 1831, with 23 voters -- many of whom lived elsewhere -- yet it still elected 2 MPs. - *Old Sarum, Wiltshire* -- A hill that was once Salisbury's old town, population _zero_ after it was gradually abandoned. By 1831, all _7_ of its voters lived elsewhere, yet it still elected 2 MPs.

[@hux2000]

It's not so much that they had barely any representation. It's that generally only men in Britain who owned land greater than or equal to a certain (fairly high) value had the right to vote. (That didn't change until the 1830s.) The wealthy, landowning leaders of the American Revolution didn't have that and they were pissed about it, since it meant they had no say with regard to taxation or any of the other rules/regulations imposed on the colonies by the British government. That was the fundamental root of the revolution. All that moral stuff about freedom, self-determination, holding certain truths to be self-evident, etc.? Just propaganda to get as many of the poor colonists (i.e. the 99%) on their side for the fight that was to come. It was about money, power and control. Wars always are.

[@Yodah97]

@@hux2000 That's a great overview. It's also worth noting that a lot of that propaganda was created after the fact to make the revolution feel more heroic, since it is now the foundational myth of the United States. Studying that history means dealing with 300 years of people who had very strong incentives to distort and sanitize the past.

[@Revolución_Socialista]

"Americans" are all people who live on the American Continent, not just in the united states

[@stentbeefclench]

@@Revolución_Socialista not in English mate, when we say Americans we are taking about united States citizens there is not other demonym. We don't normal refer to people in the Americas by continent in English but when we do it's North Americans for people in North America and South Americans for those in South America.

[@TripWagstaff5213]

The Nova Scotian revolutionaries actually managed to take fort Cumberland on the isthmus of chignecto for a short time. Also I’m glad you talked about the separate colonies rather than talking about it like Canada actually existed then, most people don’t do that.

[@ALuimes]

He still referred to the "American" colonies though, to the exclusion of the ones now part of Canada

[@turtlenoheart]

@Lord Takyon You proved his point... with edits...

[@turtlenoheart]

@Lord Takyon What makes you think I was trying to make a point?

[@MonTheWell1886]

God the nova scotia flag is so damn nice

[@Aldo_raines]

“Can’t stamp a fish” You, sir, have won the internet for today.

[@wandaperi]

Normie

[@ExtremelyGullibleMeme]

Normien’t

[@lloydjones7925]

This channel is always fascinating - another great job from History Matters.

[@RoScFan]

Do a 10 minute video on the history of the Eu from the community of coal and steel to the referendum, please!

[@alexbowers5662]

I'm a Brit but Nova Scotia is my home away from home. It makes me happy hearing/watching anything about it! :)

[@coledavis5212]

Nova Scotia is basically if Scotland was Canadian lol. Many similarities, which includes accents and kilts.

[@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump]

@@coledavis5212 thats why its called New Scotland (although for some reason, its English name is Latin, while, for example, its French name is French - Nouvelle Écosse) Now on the other hand I don't have a clue why New England is called New England, aside from the fact its directly to the south of New Scotland (like England and Scotland), and this is from someone who lived in New England for the last five years haha

[@trentlandon9033]

@@NazbolCaliphDonaldaddeenTrump it's new England because it was new England back then.. Most colonists were English.. Now it's mostly Hispanic and black..

[@IrishCarney]

THANK you. I've always wondered about that issue, and this video does a terrific job explaining it in a complete and succinct way.

[@ogrejd]

Yep. We in Nova Scotia (including the bit that would become New Brunswick) had little choice but to stay with Britain, what with being a heavily-fortified port (home to both the Navy and Britain's authorized privateers) and getting no support from the other colonies when we did try to join in and then being basically overrun with refugees (called the "Loyalists" up here) fleeing the war.

[@caolanfeely4317]

ogrejd New England looks incomplete without New Brunswick

[@theheartland1861]

2 of my ancestors on my dad's side, were privateers for the British Navy. After the British lost the revolution, they headed to Nova Scotia, then also settled on Prince Edward Island, where there is a small town on the Northwest part of the island named after my last name.

[@chocomanger6873]

@@theheartland1861 "Est" means "east", dude. Wrong side of the island.

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

@@chocomanger6873 His "name" is in Latin, not French. "Est" in Latin is the verb "to be", or is/am. "Oriens" is Latin for East.

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

Those are the good kind of refugees. Not the wife-beating kind.

[@-NoneOfYourBusiness]

"Because its the current year" Unnamed Canadian bystander, 1776.

[@Fummy007]

kek

[@intercommerce]

Thanks for making these obscure yet important history videos, succinctly explained

[@AndrewM1412]

Under the Articles of Confederation article XI, Canada was given an invitation to join the US at anytime. Canada referring to Quebec and Ontario. Article XI reads: "Canada acceding to this confederation, and adjoining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine States,”

[@BarelyEducational]

Ah yes, another episode of history taught through roblox characters.

[@romulusnuma116]

Cursed comment

[@ironsheep0026]

Big oof

[@colonelgraff9198]

L O L

[@paleposter]

Oooof

[@kiambo1601]

Tbh they look like 2d minecraft ones.

[@BucyKalman]

Given that various posters are questioning the use of the name Quebec in 1776, some clarification is needed: 1) After France ceded Hudson's Bay, Acadia and Newfoundland to Great Britain in 1713, what was left of New France remained divided into two French colonies: Canada and Louisiana. Most of Acadia became the province of Nova Scotia, from which New Brunswick was later separated in 1784. 2) Following the Seven Years, the former colony of Canada was renamed the Province of Quebec by the British and that is the name which the colony held between 1763 and 1791. 3) In 1791, the British Parliament divided the Province of Quebec into Lower Canada and Upper Canada. 4) In 1840, Lower and Upper Canada were merged again into a single Province of Canada. 5) In 1867, the then existing Provinces of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were united into the Dominion of Canada, originally consisting of the (new) provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

[@TheFlyingCougar]

"Can't stamp a fish" made me laugh way more than it should

[@thomasfiacco1992]

This may be my favorite of your videos, a totally new question that seems strange no one has asked before and cataloguing sets of information right on the edges of where what we already know (being nerds) ends

[@silencemeviolateme6076]

It's been asked. Florida was English at the time too. It was given back to Spain after the revolution as a thanks for support. All of Louisiana territory was Spanish. The governor in new Orleans helped when he could. There was a battle of San Luis. St Louis proper was never attacked. The British were repealed before they got to the city.

[@chrishei3111]

The last part about proximity fasinated me the most, makes total sense to not want to be the closest kid to mom when you've all been caught doing something

[@maxf8805]

Could you please cover the Yugoslav wars. Like so history matters can see

[@number1kenyan]

@Maximilian Fehlinger you just want free likes don’t you?

[@franciscomm7675]

@@number1kenyan maybe

[@Maus_Indahaus]

It's too risky as it can provoke the 'youtube comment section wars'

[@nestpascamillekazeyquiveut9984]

@@Maus_Indahaus Oh... Those great historical topics... WW2, the Napoleonic wars...

[@ultimatestoryteller]

You're a brave man , Max , but you're asking for too much. The comments section is always at fire when *"that"* topic is covered.

[@mrtech2259]

This enraged his father who punished him severely Oops wrong video.

[@ryanwinkler2459]

Mr Tech oops wrong channel

[@isaiahthomas5987]

Wrong channel

[@TLSoulDude]

"You can't stamp a fish"...It might be because I'm exhausted, but that sentence has me snickering like mad right now. XD

[@unstoppable-ar3292]

The best history channel. Short. Precise. informative. Thank you man

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Because Canada was like: *Canadian noises* But America was all like: *American noises*

[@leithesocialistyuricon8981]

Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access American noises are something to hide from

[@ronaldderooij1774]

@@leithesocialistyuricon8981 Yes. and the Original poster is proof of that. Haha. I never saw such an idiotic comment.

[@firstnamelastname7079]

@@leithesocialistyuricon8981 you will never escape the U.S 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@Udontkno7]

@@ronaldderooij1774 do I have to woosh you?

[@CrazyNikel]

@@ronaldderooij1774 Jealousy coming from you *palpable*

[@jonathanrobinson407]

Bien le bonjour du Québec :) Merci pour vos capsules, toujours très intéressantes :)

[@dominiquebeaulieu]

Sauf qu'il y a une fausseté historique. Nous aurions en effet aimé redevenir Français.

[@Artiomiz]

oh boy, time to ditch history and watch History Matters. here we again

[@subscribeorsus6862]

Go

[@kartykredytowe1642]

When you finally get rid off separatism in a province.

[@uwuowo7332]

@Bryan Ouellet eu4 stuff

[@uwuowo7332]

@Bryan Ouellet eu4 is a game..

[@Argacyan]

*placating subject intensifies*

[@ExtremelyGullibleMeme]

@@uwuowo7332 eu4 is indeed a game

[@victorhs258]

Damn, you pose good historical questions and insights, thank you.

[@silencemeviolateme6076]

It's okay. He missed Florida.

[@whoareyou1034]

Remember, when your colonies are angry, in the brink of rebellion, *tax them more* .

[@osobori]

*cough* Puerto Rico

[@TheGM-20XX]

@@osobori he said tax them, not pay them.

[@someoneonearth1617]

They got angry after the taxation...

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

@MrNorthernSol isn't that what the 13 colonies already have before they start protesting those taxes? They had colonial charters that allowed them to form their own local government.

[@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry]

@MrNorthernSol "There were no similar crises in Canada...". You've never heard of the 1837 Rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada?

[@SamAronow]

Fun fact (because everybody gets this wrong): the Proclamation Line of 1763 no longer existed by the time of the American Revolution. By then, a series of treaties with the Iroquois (Fort Stanwix, Hard Labour, and Lochaber) had resulted in a much stranger and uglier-looking border between the 13 colonies and the Indian Reserve.

[@martymethuselah]

that was called 'Appellation line' meaning it was 'to be named by an appellate court' (as the empire grew and incorporated the land when the King needed)... the USA bastardizes the line as 'Appalachians'...

[@sean668]

@@martymethuselah That would be hilarious if it were true, but reality is actually pretty boring. Spanish explorers named the mountains after the Apalachee people who lived at their base

[@SamAronow]

​@@martymethuselah More believable than "Appellation Line," a Google search of which will reveal nothing.

[@SamAronow]

@@martymethuselah So what? I can speak French. I also know what false cognates are, and there is absolutely no historical evidence for your contention that that is where the name comes from. The mountains were named by the Spanish after the Apalachee people. It is a known fact.

[@TheJeremyHolloway]

Yeah but the Proclamation angered a lot of Colonists with ambitions for those lands. Washington having been one of them.

[@smallmj2886]

The closer to England thing may have been less of a factor than you think. The prevailing winds blow the wrong way, so most sailing ships followed a circular route from England to the Caribbean to the East Cost of North America and back to England.

[@zimriel]

That's with 16th-17th technology and maps. I think by the late 18th century, the ships were getting better at direct transAtlantic commerce. And steam will be coming.

[@Michael-lu9eu]

You have the incorrect Union Jack in the video. It should be the pre-1801 Union Jack without St Patrick's Cross, as Ireland wasn't formally part of the Union at that point.

[@globeforever9777]

michael avila Good point, also It is not a Union Jack it is a Union Flag. It is only a Union Jack when flown on the Jack staff of a ship. Flown upside down (as in the video) on a ship is a sign of distress

[@RCassinello]

@@globeforever9777 The Jack vs. Flag argument has ultimately proven fallacious - the name of the flag of the union is the Union Jack.

[@anttibjorklund1869]

"Why didn't Canada join the American revolution?" Answer: it didn't exist, eh?

[@DavBlc7]

Canada was called Canadien in French by the settlers even before the British took New France including Quebec, but yeah, it didn't exist cos at the time it was British America. Canada came into exist when Parliament in London decided to give their colony new self governing statue in mid 19th century, thus the name Canada came into exist.

[@leokennedy7624]

That’s racist

[@coledavis5212]

Leo Kennnedy how is any of this racist?

[@P7777-u7r]

"Canada" back then were the colonies of upper canada and lower canada. The prairies were "ruperts land" owned by the HBC directly and BC was "colony of BC" with Vancouver Island being a separate colony for awhile and none of those other places thought of themselves as "Canadian" until joining confederation. New Brunswick Nova Scotia and PEI was the same thing in terms of being separate and Newfoundland didnt join Canada until 1948 it was pretty reluctantly Newfoundland even sent it's own units to fight in WW2 not as part of Canada. For the longest time actually "Canada" just meant "the british owned territories along the st lawrence and great lakes" and it expanded pretty gradually.

[@festethephule7553]

@@leokennedy7624 Are...are you just going around the comment section calling people racist as if some sort of weird mocking left-wing caricature?

[@adammetzger4182]

Thanks for the Info. I've wondered that many times.

[@OzzieTheHead]

2:45 I was playing EU4 the same time and the game was paused. Suddenly I hear naval battle effects. I am in the middle of stealing Global Trade from Genoa so I panicked

[@ExtremelyGullibleMeme]

Did you steal it?

[@PainCausingSamurai]

Regarding Nova Scotia's situation, you shouldn't overlook the impact of the Acadian Expulsion after the French/Indian wars. Basically, by the time the America Revolution occurred, a significant portion of the population not loyal to the British Empire had been forced to leave 15 years earlier. This is actually the origin of Cajun culture.

[@zimriel]

There's a book "A Great and Noble Scheme" concerning that. The Acadians weren't even disloyal; they just chose to sit out the Seven Years War. Quebec lost and got to keep being French. The Acadians didn't even side with Quebec and had to leave.

[@kathrynmcmullen2344]

I have American ancestors (a father and son, the dad fighting in the revolution for independence) from Pennsylvania in the 1790s, who ended up settling near what is know Oakville, Ontario. I have always wondered what that family thought when the War of 1812 broke out. Read the books Pierre Berton wrote on that war. Facinating stuff. Sent the books to the editor of BBC History Magazine back in 2012. Get editions of these books published by Canadian companies only. The American ones have been edited to make it a more comfortable read for Americans. Anchor Canada is one of the publishers in Canada.

[@CosmicStuff]

when I learned this story in school. this part was handwaved away by oh they're called loyalists because they're loyal. This makes more sense.

[@sussyinternet8048]

It is not completly untrue, it is the englophone view of this, but as an Québécois I can assure you that is not real reason. The clergé Who had most of the power at this time were happy to join the british empire because it was a good way to keep their "holy country" in "slavery" to god. The clergé wasn't happy to see the coureur des bois and the truchements beeing less and less fidel to the catholic doctrines. By joining the american revolution was opening the door to freedom and so, sin. So the clergé did all what it can to propaganda against joining the american in their revolution. And to mantion too is that Québec is still talking french and only french, not wasn't. If you go to Québec you'll see a lot more fleurdelisé flag then canadian flag

[@linefrenette9116]

And some of us are Separatists

[@puppet23ca]

I remember asking my proff about why Quebec did not join the american rebels particularly after France started helping them she listed the advantages given to Quebec by being under British rule(freedom of religion and other considerations) but also pointed out that there may have been a sentiment of resentment toward France among Quebec residents over France's failure to provide enough support during conflicts quebec had with the english before it was put under British rule

[@zimriel]

yeah, the "muh freedom of religion" canard is a joke. sure, the Puritans in Massachusetts didn't believe in it (they still don't, it's the most bigoted state in the US to this day, but now "liberal"). But the Colonies also had Virginia which was completely all-in on exactly the same rights-of-man stuff they were preaching in Louis XVI's France. For heaven's sake, the French imported most of that stuff from Virginia. And if the issue was that the Colonies didn't have Catholics, as I've noted here on this thread already, Maryland existed, and there were lots of Irish here.

[@Osckarre]

That's just the way we roll. Loyalty is important.

[@Osckarre]

@@subscribeofficial7134 You must be ok with a fragmented sentence but I have no idea what you are trying to convey with it.

[@subscribeofficial7134]

@@Osckarre jk mate, but with insane trump and mass shooting in USA, I'm feeling worried about canadian

[@Osckarre]

@@subscribeofficial7134 Ahh I see. Well, we are worried in fact. There's a constant stream of illegal weapons flowing into Canada from the criminal organizations on both sides of the border. Not to mention the way the hate propaganda is playing out on certain people in our country. And Trump sending out signals to the fringe elements like "civil war like fractures" it really is getting worrisome.

[@chocomanger6873]

It doesn't really make sense to kill your siblings, parents, cousins, aunts, and uncles back in the UK, when you're going to form a new country of your own in the end anyway. Look at the USA today how they love the UK and practically think the UK's queen is their queen.

[@aaa-vx8ke]

Choco Manger nah the queen can die, we see them as an island

[@fluxie120]

i am a simple man, i see a history matters notification, i click.

[@heroofythero3086]

Fluxie me too

[@franciscomm7675]

me too

[@Dave_Sisson]

Oh don't put yourself down. I'm sure you are not a simpleton or you wouldn't be watching this video. :)

[@haroldellis9721]

I too am a simple man. Very, very simple.

[@seandenapoli9180]

fluxie same

[@joermnyc]

I can only imagine an alternate history where the USA didn’t revolt, eventually became a dominion and finally an independent commonwealth nation... the Queen would be on the money and we’d probably have much different states and borders with our neighbors.

[@bingola45]

You would have got rid of slavery by 1833, too.

[@si91]

@@bingola45 Possibly not. As History Matters has pointed out, half the slaves in the British Empire were in the American South. American independence made it that much easier for Britain to abolish slavery, and that much harder for the US to do so.

[@bingola45]

@@si91 If the 1776 rebellion had collapsed, and the American colonies had remained part of the Empire, slavery would have ended by 1833.

[@si91]

@@bingola45 Like I said, it's possible, but it would have been harder had the southern slave states remained, because there would be more slaves and more powerful landed interests to oppose the end of slavery. American independence took with it half of Britain's slaves, making it that much easier for Britain to abolish slavery when it did so,

[@bingola45]

@@si91 Slavery was abolished throughout the Empire. The decision was made. The only reason slavery continued in North America was because the colonies who had left the Empire continued to condone it.

[@andriyg1244]

As a student, learning English, I still remember text about history of acts, that leaded to revolutionary wars, on one of our listening exam. There even was question about < Taxation without representation >...

[@SidheKnight]

That's Australia. America was (and is) mainly comprised of religious nutjobs.

[@aleckushmerek1757]

Tip: In English you use quotes " " instead of arrows. Tienen un gran día, Alec

[@justinbeath5169]

@@HerewardWake Georgia was the only prison colony in north America and even then most of the people living there either moved there because they wanted to or they were born there, thus not if wasn't majority convicts

[@aleckushmerek1757]

@Josip Back when I was learning Spanish I always found it harder to write the arrows and got yelled at by many a teacher (It was a bilingual school so we had all our classes in Spanish for 3 days a week)

[@aleckushmerek1757]

@Josip The school is in the city of Boston in the U.S. I went to it until 6th grade. Twice a week we'd have "English days" and three times a week we'd have "Spanish days". We'd even recite the pledge of allegiance in Spanish.

[@johane4764]

I was just thinking about this exactly 2 days ago. What a coincidence.

[@canadagood]

I wanted to stress how accurate and timely all the maps are in these otherwise cartoonish History Matters videos. Such accuracy is hard to find online. Thanks.

[@ErikHare]

Thank you very much, this is extremely good and it's a topic that is rarely discussed in American history. Certainly not as adequately as you have done. The only addition I would suggest, one that would take it be on 5 minutes and might be a interesting separate video, would be to include the other three North American colonies of East and West Florida and the Bahamas. None of them had many people but there was some limited action in all of them. The Continental Navy took Freeport in the Bahamas, for example, hoping to Ransom it back. They were unsuccessful in that. But it was extremely interesting. Thank you again. I consider this to be a very valuable contribution, as is the entire body of your work

[@junipervip681]

Yes, I too would be interested in the North American colonies that opted out of the revolution.

[@mikemccallion636]

Michael McCallion 30 mins · Kettling is one of the many occasions of English Language Culture are now considered and treated as 'second class citizens' by the French Language Control of the Federal Government Agenda.--- My summary of the situation is as follows; _____Michael McCallion "Great is the lead into; "Great Experiement" - Which is the words of George Washington -- as You Know. __ "OUR CAUSE IS NOBLE; IT IS THE CAUSE OF MANKIND!"___ The next logical reach out is to bring the remainder of the North American Colonies, which were negotiated away by the Victorian Era, British Bureaucracy Final Arbiter period of total control during the Period of Queen Victoria's seclusion of mourning for Her developed Husband Prince Albert. ___ There was little or no input from the Colonies, and future Colonies of the English Language Culture which were unable to be included in the "Great Experiment" evolution of Sovereignty of the Ordinary Average American Citizen.___ The resultant was a Confederation of the East Coast Atlantic Colonies with the Upper Canada --Ontario & Lower Canada -- Quebec. Subsequent British Colony --British Columbia joined the Confederation. __ Central Prairie Territory e.g Prince Rupert Land became Alberta & Saskathewan & Manitoba. { rough description for this comment} -_-__-_- The present situation is continuing effort of the Ottawa/ Hull, Quebec coalescing into a National Capital Region was able to use then threat of Separation to frighten Job Loss of the Bureacracy. This steadily evolved to a Separate Nation still within the Original Confederation; plus entitled to establish The Quebec Nation as a single (French Language) culture, while the Remanat Canadian National Provinces; even though the Majority Population were forced by the French Language dominated Ottawa/Hull National Government to establish a Bi-Lingual (French - English) culture.--Naturally such a process has led to having a Federal Government Bureaucracy to quietly move the French Language Culture into the preferred -_-_-_- First Class culture and through decades of agenda driven Bureaucracy -- the inherited Victorian Era -- Privy Council Office as Final Arbiter in control of the Federal Government. --- Such is the situation the English Language Cuture has steadily devolved into several determined Groups ready to leave the now defunct Confederation. ___ Which is now comprised of Two Nations and a supplicant Federal Bureaucracy since the evolution easily defined as a ________________ [ Quiet Coup d'tate or The Publized Quiet Revolution ] at the time ] or to the French Language establisment determining Federal Government's agenda

[@KGBookkeeping]

Spot-on and well done; hats off sir

[@matthewnoto9380]

Canadians fought in the Revolutionary Army, and were present in battles across the border region along the Great Lakes and (so far as I know) at the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania (and probably every battle in between, too). Not a mile from my home, Canadian volunteers joined American colonists in a raid on Staten Island which attacked the British Army headquarters for New York City located there (a portion of The Rose and Crown Inn, the building Howe was using at the time, is still standing). The Battles of Richmondtown and Old Blazing Star Ferry occurred when Rebel General John Sullivan mounted a raid which was designed to destroy the British outpost at Richmondtown (then the administrative center of the island) and take prisoners. The Continentals rowed their boats across the Arthur Kill from Elizabethtown (present-day Elizabeth, New jersey). The Rebel forces were routed in a matter of hours, but not before killing one of the leading British Commanders (Lt. Col. Dongan, a member of the family for whom the Dongan Hills section of the island is named) and taking approximately 80 prisoners. Approximately 250 Continentals were taken prisoner by the British. Casualties on either side were relatively light, given the small numbers of men involved (about 1,300 Continentals and roughly equal number of British, Hessians and New Jersey Loyalist Militias). If one tours the present site of Historic Richmondtown (a living museum dedicated to local history over the last 400 years, or so, going back to the Dutch colonies) evidence of the battle can still be found, particularly in St. Andrew's Church and it's adjoining cemetery, where stray bullets scarred tombstones and buildings.

[@VaniljeAlfen]

Good video. Very informative. Some of your videos are not as in depth as i would prefer. But others, including this one, really hits the spot with being both on point an sufficiently explanatory. I learned a lot in a short amount of time. Thank you

[@Birkebeiner1066]

2:20 most violent riot in Canadian history

[@johnbrowne3950]

Until the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins in 2011.

[@SliverRogue2012]

“Can’t stamp a fish” lol

[@frnkndad]

You missed one rather large reason for French in North America no siding with the rebels, they had just suffered a rather humiliating defeat at the hands of the British during the 7 years war, but yet managed to gain the prized position you described. They simply weren't willing to risk it all again for (what for them would be only) minimal gains

[@keithygadget381]

It wasn’t just regions that were loyal to the Crown, cities on the eastern seaboard were too. New York being the major loyalist city.

[@pixlplague]

The only thing you possibly could have added is that the Quebec Act was in no small part to ensure loyalty of the French there as seeds of rebellion grew in the Colonies. Otherwise pretty awesome!

[@richardroberts6021]

You didn't mention how the colonies went to great lengths to try and get Quebec to join, even sending Benedict Arnold to lead an attack on Quebec City, which went so badly he lost his leg there

[@jackwacaster7621]

Good summation of an overlooked aspect of the American Revolution. The

[@mauditsalopard]

Jacques Cartier did take control of what he then called "Canada" (after a Native word, "Kanata" if I'm not mistaken, that referred to a small human establishment) in the name of the king of France when he planted a cross in Gaspé in 1534. Canada, as a geopolitical entity, has existed before the American revolution, and it has been part of a greater colonial whole that has included Acadia, Île Saint-Jean (modern PEI) and Île Royale (modern Cale-Breton Island), among others, throughout the French colonial era. Even the French-speaking catholic residents of the St. Lawrence Valley who descended from the first French settlers were already called "Canadiens" before the Seven Years' War happened (French general le Marquis de Montcalm was actually among the French colonial elite that despised the local "Canadiens")... "Canada", as a geopolitical entity, did exist before 1763!!! And don't tell me about the myth of "well the first Canadians were the Natives because they were there before European settlers", because they actually had no notion of land property and didn't actually define themselves as "Canadians"

[@Andrew-gn9qp]

Canada was primarily a fur-trading colony, and its main agricultural product is wheat, these relied protection from British soldiers, and access to the British market. Furthermore, much of the early colonisation in Canada were conducted through missionaries, which relied protection from British soldiers, this occurred in places such as Ontario, and Quebec.

[@mjktrash]

Amazing the history that we didn't learn in school! I never realized (but always wondered) about the US/Canada relationship.

[@patrickcarey393]

I have two nits to pick about this article. Nit #1. The major reason for the American revolution against England was the effective ban on slavery by a British court and the fear that the ruling would be enforced on this side of the pond. The tea tax was just an excuse to fire up the citizens, not a real reason. No other British colony ever started a revolution over the price of tea. Washington and Jefferson, those great patriotic heroes, were slave owners. Similarly even today many white southerners claim the revolutionary war in the next century was about "States Rights", not slavery. I've always wondered why these facts are never mentioned. Nit #2. It is not pronounced NewFOUNDland. It's Newfoundland, understand?

[@nohbuddy1]

You can't let people know the American Revolution was a bourgeois revolution and that most of the taxes were repealed after protest, and that the taxes were put in place after Britain fought a costly war for the colonies. That and how the Colonies were also forbidden from moving westward

[@patrickcarey393]

@@nohbuddy1 Sorry. My bad. Your short history lesson is 100% accurate but try to keep it to yourself. We can't have the unwashed masses privy to the truth. May I correct an error in Nit #2. It is not pronounced Newfundlund. It's Newfundland, understand?

[@BucyKalman]

The Sommerset court ruling applied only to England and not to the colonies. The British colonies in the Caribbean and in the Cape had slaves until 1832 when slavery was outlawed in all territories of the Empire by the British Parliament.

[@bittersweetstateofmind3698]

The Canadians were good, intelligent people.

[@bittersweetstateofmind3698]

@Христо ЛуковIn that time period, and still to this day, they are.

[@bittersweetstateofmind3698]

@Wayne Hitchcock That is your interpretation of that political group.

[@zm1786]

@@bittersweetstateofmind3698 meanwhile cost of living is going up , they're acquiring more debt and crime keeps going up.

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

I'm from canada and this place blows, Toronto is a crime ridden hellhole wherein people get fucking shanked, shot, or even drove over by criminals, gangs, or depressed youth.

[@BigD-nr8wn]

@kwazooplayingguardsman I’m Canadian and I have this friend who lives in such a fucked up neighbor hood he just had like a 20 something year old guy get fucking stabbed like a bunch of times and it was so brutal the guy had to go down to Toronto I think

[@fraslex]

French Canadiens got a good deal from their new British rulers after France abandoned them. They could keep their language, laws, and religion. Also, the Catholic Church opposed rebellion which was essentially their only source of knowledge at the time. Great video!

[@_blank-_]

The British were harsh with the Acadians though (ethnic cleansing).

[@Ibelikemj]

They got it good, the Acadiens? Not so much, I don’t know why the Acadians had a worse time over the Québécois.

[@seronymus]

"their only source of knowledge" oh give me a bloody break, this is chronological snobbery. Btw revolution is Satanic in most cases

[@Ogilla]

It wasn’t a good deal, it was a Trojan horse meant to slowly assimilate French Canadians with them welcoming their own, slow disappearance. It was a good strategy from a British point of view, as French is almost non-existent outside of Québec, except for part of New-Brunswick and some towns in Ontario.

[@Nenufort]

@@Ogilla To be fair, the Durham report made the difference. At first, Britain just wanted to keep Canada peaceful and under the fold. The idea that the French and Catholics had to become second class citizens only arrived decades later, in the 1830s.

[@zacharygriffin2041]

I’d love to see a video on the Great Flag Debate in Canada

[@Crick1952]

Having seen this it seems very possible that Nova Scotia could have been one of the 13 (now 14) original colonies Seems an interesting alt-hist scenario

[@marsbolcan9311]

You could even go a step further and include Newfoundland for an extra fun alt-history. Talk about the Irish population of the island. I wonder what would of happened with the rest of the continent and how state would of developed? Nova Scotia back then included New Brunswick as well, so it's an even larger state. Hard to imagine St. John Island (modern Prince Edward Island) not being captured or joining in if both Newfoundland and Nova Scotia did. Would Quebec have been conquered and taken as well? And if so how would it be divided up? (We all know full well that they aren't going to let Quebec keep all that territory that is barely inhabited by the French). I mentioned the Irish of Newfoundland earlier which made up a large portion of the population and would of not exactly liked Britain a lot, but considering they were catholic, I wonder how that would of played out.

[@agilemind6241]

@@marsbolcan9311 No Newfoundland would not have joined. They didn't even join Canada until they were totally broke and politically dysfunctional in 1949. Newfoundlanders have always had much stronger ties to various parts of the UK than the rest of the continent.

[@marsbolcan9311]

@@agilemind6241 I'm aware of this. Newfoundlanders saw themselves as a North Atlantic Nation, not a North American nation. Although in the 1940s there was a popular sentiment to have union with the Americans. Plus we're just talking about alternate history anyway. Newfoundland not joining Canada was largely in part of forming their own identity. In the late 1700s this would not of been as strong a factor though.

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

As someone who lives in modern-day New Brunswick, I sometimes wish I was American. I suppose it's never too late to start our own revolution, though.

[@alpearson9158]

@@IndellableHatesHandles THEN MOVE i'M SURE YOU WOULD BE WELCOMED , UH SORRY GUESS THAT'S NOT TRUE

[@mandaloriancrusader6699]

Legend still says everyone living in Nova Scotia to this day fears long dead King George appearing in their dream and saying...soon.

[@kamanashiskar9203]

King George III died 200 years ago in January of 1820.

[@elliot04877]

@@kamanashiskar9203 got proof?

[@OdotJdot]

The commentary in these videos is awesome and hilarious, but the signs in the illustrations take me OUT lmao. Bravo!

[@chocolaterain5097]

In early just to say... Who is looking forward to CK3? Am I right

[@beersmurff]

If it's anything like IR, no thanks :-)

[@chocolaterain5097]

@@beersmurff ew yeah that was a tough launch. I just want a similar UI as CK2 with a better notification system and smoother graphics/more portraits. More events and deeper decisions of course. That said, I have faith Paradox will stick with a game like IR and make it great.

[@Mark-xq7lh]

Cant wait for imperator rome 2

[@Valandix]

@@Mark-xq7lh I want a CK3 with 3 Dlc about marrying sons and mothers

[@blindtherapper2470]

@@Mark-xq7lh bruh

[@arkaig1]

"Can't Stamp a Fish!" Divine!

[@Armorius2199]

Nice but when does the Orthodox view on Protestantism will come?

[@christianweibrecht6555]

Interactions between Protestant and East Orthodox christians where rare to the point that thier where no major confrontations

[@jurisprudens]

Most Orthodox historically did not understand the difference between Catholics and Protestants. To them, they are all "western heretics".

[@jurisprudens]

Emir Mohamed Al-Bergha Catholics - yes, they don’t view the Orthodox as heretics, only as schismatics. Most devout Orthodox that I met consider the Catholics as heretics, because of the different creed, Papal supremacy and some other convoluted issues.

[@bobmcbob49]

@@jurisprudens I think it's more dependent on the person. Though Islam comes to mind where it's strange that in many cases, Sunni consider Christians to be schismatics of the same faith as Islam, but Shi'ites are heretics.

[@767scarecrow]

@@bobmcbob49 Is that true? That's wild.

[@jpaul6841]

I love how the British narrator is slightly condescending to 18th century Americans

[@paganphil100]

J Paul: Its called being polite (check your dictionary if you're American).

[@dinoxman8584]

Well for one, on 0:05 and the thumbnail Canada didn’t look like that when the revolution occurred.

[@blessingsogbetun7007]

Britain : here's food and shelter but you have pay TAXES America: see ya Britain surprised pikachu face

[@feelsbradman6793]

More like: We protected your arses during the 7 years war and we're bankrupt now. Pay up.

[@blessingsogbetun7007]

@@feelsbradman6793 exactly

[@xaviersaavedra7442]

FeelsBradMan 13 colonies: yeah but we also spilled our blood for that land and deserve it and representation just as much is you. We’ll give you two chances to mend your mistakes or else c ya!

[@spongmongler6760]

always have the americans trying to make a retort. emphasis on trying.

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

Well they succeeded that time and got their independence.

[@harrisonbound3265]

Can you have a look at the Wairau Affray in NZ in 1843 and the impacts it had on British-Maori relations? Very interesting topic

[@marscaleb]

3:41 "Soon." You don't have to hit the nail on the head when you can just hold the hammer up high enough.

[@Usurper123]

I always wondered this. I don't know if it awesome or sad that I finally found out watching a cartoon.

[@dart336]

The short version of the war of Independence had to do with a dispute over contract laws. The colonies existed only because of charters directly between the colonial government and the crown. Parliament was always a third party with no right to intervene with colonial affairs such as tax collection. With Georgia being the youngest colony founded in 1732, these arrangements were fresh on the minds of American colonials. King George the third did not respect the terms of these charters by trying to involve the parliament and instigating riots by trampling on English Common Law. The colonists didn't want war and the Olive Branch Petition was a last ditch effort to remind the King of his oath and duty. His reaction was to kick the colonies out of the empire, then invade 13 sovereign Nations under the guise of quashing a rebellion. Simply put the colonies in Canada didn't have the same problems overall

[@TheJeremyHolloway]

That's not accurate. The Colonies asked King George to review their Charters because they believed Parliament had no right to legislate for them. They thought King George would rule in their favo(u)r. He studied the existing Charters closely and ruled that the Colonies were the ones in error and that Parliament had every right to legislate for the entire Empire. For that, they rebelled, declared him a "tyrant", took up arms against His forces, and allied with the absolute monarch that was the French King whose throne and government had tried to exterminate them all for well over a century previously. Yeah.

[@harrynewiss4630]

Rubbish

[@VersedNJ]

I did read somewhere that what was to become New Brunswick did have sympathy and some minor acts but were divided and basically overwhelmed. Plus distance from Colonal forces were to far and through wilderness and harsher climate.

[@ARKOVZ]

Why? Because logic.

[@RhenishHelm]

Note for any future videos about Canada: the "u" is silent in "Quebec." The province's name comes from an Algonquin word, "kébec," meaning "strait" or "narrow passage," or, more romantically, "where the river narrows." Brits and Americans pronounce it "Qwebec," likely because of English words like question or quandary, but "qu-" words in French are just a solid "k" sound, so depending on whether you are an Anglo or Franco Canadian, you'd pronounce it "Kuh-beck" or "Kay-beck."

[@linefrenette9116]

It mean "Narrow River"(Saint Lawrence River)

[@benjaminencarmine]

I don't care, French words are gay