HISTORY 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Goldwin Smith, Canadian Natural Resources, Central Canada
17 Feb 2017
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Nation and empire: nationalism and imperialism were not separate ideas, british empire was a integral part of. Only grows stronger: many cracks in this identity, being canadian was to be part of britain, but also being close to the. Us, increasing immigration, and differences of language, history, and religion: nationalism and economic politics. Created a lot of anxiety in some people. Theme present throughout the late 19th century, explained best by goldwin smith: become critical of the fact about how british canada is, had moved to canada because it was more. British than the states: does not understand why it was created an the most logical end point was for it to merge with us. Development of us branch plants in canada: by 1913: the us got around the tariffs by investing in canada, owning many companies, and the. Canadian economy becomes closer to the us economy.
