History of Canada
Canada was built on dead beavers.”
~Margaret Atwood
We got cold weather up here, eh?
This web page talks about the Firsters and what started their independence from Canada. It mentions Ontarians George Denison, Henry Morgan,
Charles Mair and
William Foster and by
Robert Grant Haliburton who followed the pathe that D'arcy left them. They wanted to be independent from the US and Britain and show that they could indeed stand on their own.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/
index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001229
