Forgive my ignorance, but what was the reason behind the British needing Australia when they could have just dumped convicts in parts of British North America they still retained post-ARW?
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But Australia is literally on the other side of the world. It’s much harder and expensive to ferry all these people over there as opposed to Canada.Alongside the existence of a Francophone population, the geography of the country/region proved a hindrance.
Forgive my ignorance, but what was the reason behind the British needing Australia when they have just dumped convicts in parts of British North America they still retained post-ARW?
The distance and expense, on the other hand, would be justifiable from the point of view of the British government.It’s much harder and expensive to ferry all these people over there as opposed to Canada.
Maybe Hudson Bay? It’s not particularly far from Britain by sea, it’s far from the US and considering some of the proposal of penal colony were in disease ridden or deserted part of Africa, It would be an upgrade from all the proposal so except Australia
It was a two-fer.Forgive my ignorance, but what was the reason behind the British needing Australia when they could have just dumped convicts in parts of British North America they still retained post-ARW?
It was an expensive undertaking to ship convicts to Australia. They had to re-water and re-victual the First Fleet at Rio de Janeiro and were almost arrested by the local authorities for not paying their bills.
The British Empire worked very hard to stuff Canada with Scots and keep the Irish out. I think even in the 1980s every other Canadian boy was named Doug Campbell.
Remember we invaded Canada in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 and kept threatening repeats through the 1850s: 54-40 or Fight! There was a push to invade Canada just before the Civil War in hopes of improving American national harmony. Palmerston and Gladstone both made a point of putting Scot regiments in Canada. Meanwhile, with Alpha Centauri not practical, they sent the Irish to the other side of the world by sailing ships that took months each way.