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Originally Posted by SJTOKO
Ridiculous tripe.
The University of New Brunswick is the oldest in Canada. When I walk around my hometown (Saint John) all I see is Canadian firsts. First Police Force, First Law school, First YMCA, first bank. It's the oldest incorporated Canadian city and the third oldest overall, St. John's being the oldest. Anyway, here's an essay for you to read. Perhaps you might learn something.
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Thanks for the read, but are you able to provide a relevant essay as to why Central Canada is 'unlike' the U.S., as you've claimed?
Central Canada's pattern of colonisation is more akin to New England than the Maritimes. If this troubles you, perhaps you could vent your rage by screaming at a map of the Maritime peninsulas and islands that make New England-type colonisation impossible for the Maritimes.
Halifax may have been a major port
back then, but even
back then it was isolated. York/Toronto was connected to Hamilton to the west -- Montreal and Quebec City to the east. These connections, which were and still are an economic advantage, were short distance, easily navigable, and cheap -- compared to long distance, expensive travelling on potentially rough seas all the way around the peninsula of Nova Scotia in order to reach the nearest major port of Saint John, from Halifax.
Boston is even further away. And U.S. protectionism would have isolted Nova Scotia regardless, because even if Nova Scotia hadn't joined Canada it was still part of British North America. Joining the U.S. was never seriously considered, especially since Halifax was built-up to resist America, militarily.
And indeed, I enjoy how this essay reflects what I've said about industries not moving out of the Maritimes. Investment in the Maritimes stifled -- not closing factories immediately, if at all (as your list of 'firsts' is concerned) -- as expansions of industries bloomed in Central Canada. It is this level of industrial development that never took hold in the Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and PEI.
St. John's, by the way, is part of Atlantic Canada, not the Maritimes
