Highlander
Banned
Lately I've been reading At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson (a truly incredible book, I highly recommend it to everyone), and he raised an interesting point.
Before the completion of the Erie Canal, farmers in the Old West and beyond the Appalachians were pretty cut off; it was cheaper to send their produce west to the Mississippi and down to New Orleans. Because of this separation, and without the Canal, many people of the day thought that eventually they would form their own Republics. He also proposed that Canada would have become the powerhouse of North America, as the St. Lawrance acted as the waterway to the Great Lakes.
What are your thoughts on this?
Before the completion of the Erie Canal, farmers in the Old West and beyond the Appalachians were pretty cut off; it was cheaper to send their produce west to the Mississippi and down to New Orleans. Because of this separation, and without the Canal, many people of the day thought that eventually they would form their own Republics. He also proposed that Canada would have become the powerhouse of North America, as the St. Lawrance acted as the waterway to the Great Lakes.
What are your thoughts on this?