Support for the Revolution

Quebec, Nova Scotia... And there's Bermuda and the Bahamas, who sympathized with the Americans greatly but remained British in the end.

In fairness, Nova Scotia, so recently repopulated by Yankees, had quite the sympathy for the rebels but most of these Yankees were still setting up a life in the colony. Halifax being British America's main naval base allowed them to prevent anyone from assembling a popular government. Still, certain counties sent representatives asking Congress to just admit the whole colony anyway.

The local Eddy's Rebellion was indeed in frontier *New Brunswick and fizzed out quickly, but that it happened at all and got as far as it did should say something.

Even post ARW New Brunswick was made because the local Nova Scotia citizens were apparently not taking to the Loyalists kindly and apparently bitchier on rights with the war' send than any of the old colonies were! :p
 
Quebec, Nova Scotia... And there's Bermuda and the Bahamas, who sympathized with the Americans greatly but remained British in the end.

Quebec is obviously a very special case here: a British colony peopled almost entirely by French Catholics (who had recently been at war with the Thirteen Colonies, no less).
 
Quebec is obviously a very special case here: a British colony peopled almost entirely by French Catholics (who had recently been at war with the Thirteen Colonies, no less).

True, but then again Quebec had also recently been at war with Britain as well and quite a few of them actually provided aid to the American forces in 1775.

That being said, Quebec was invited (IIRC) to send representatives to the Continental Congress and never did.

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Bill
 
True, but then again Quebec had also recently been at war with Britain as well and quite a few of them actually provided aid to the American forces in 1775.

That being said, Quebec was invited (IIRC) to send representatives to the Continental Congress and never did.

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Bill

Yeah, there were a number of French-Canadian volunteers in the Continental Army (there is a town in the Detroit area named for one, Jean-François Hamtramck), but it's not that surprising that the colony itself elected not to join the new union; the cultural differences were huge.
 
Yeah, there were a number of French-Canadian volunteers in the Continental Army (there is a town in the Detroit area named for one, Jean-François Hamtramck), but it's not that surprising that the colony itself elected not to join the new union; the cultural differences were huge.

The cultural differences were huge, but again that was also true with Great Britain. And I am not sure everyone believed in 1775-1776 time frame that signing on with the Continental Congress meant becoming part of the same country with the other colonies.

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Bill
 
Yeah, there were a number of French-Canadian volunteers in the Continental Army (there is a town in the Detroit area named for one, Jean-François Hamtramck), but it's not that surprising that the colony itself elected not to join the new union; the cultural differences were huge.

Not to mention the 100+ years of war and utter hatred between the two. Don't forget that in past times both New France and New England paid Native Americans to attack the other's communities and take scalps, in addition to New France paying Native Americans for live captives of any sort to be ransomed later. (In addition to both, at times, offering bounties for the scalps from enemy Native American tribes)

17th and early 18th century eastern North America was a brutal place.
 
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