From @ElizabethPostumaSimcoe #UpperCanada #ColonialHistory
They always were, babe
If you read #HowardZinn, youโd know why so many colonialists fled to #UpperCanada & Lower #Canada & the #MaritimeProvincesโฆ
they werenโt okay with itโฆ & they KNEW that โI donโt want to pay my military defence #taxesโ was no fucking excuse to shoot up the neighbourhood
There are 792 pages and more than 300 #illustrations in #colour and #B&W in this 1933 #FirstEdition #book about early life in #Ontario. Heavy. $40. #Booksky #Canada #CanadianHistory #SocialHistory #UpperCanada
There are 3 books available for schools that highlight Richard Pierpoint, one of Ontario's first African settlers.
Add #RichardPierpoint to curricula- #AmericanRevolution #UnitedEmpireLoyalist #Warof1812 #UpperCanada #ontarioteacher #OSSTF #OECTA #ETFO
A cabinet maker at work in Upper Canada Village near Morrisburg in Ontario, Canada.
Upper Canada Village is a living history site that depicts life in rural Ontario in 1866.
#photography #portraitphotography #uppercanadavillage #ontariotourism #Ontario #UpperCanada
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NON-INDIGENOUS ๐จ๐ฆ HISTORY II
When Yu read about our history, itโs evident that many pre-1967 residents* considered THEMselves to live IN #Canada too!
* & foreigners ๐ฌ๐ง๐ซ๐ท๐บ๐ธโฆ ๐ #CanadaDay #cdnHistory #LowerCanada #UpperCanada
Natasha Henry-Dixon will be talking about her project โOne Too Many: Black #Enslavement in #UpperCanada, 1760-1834โ tomorrow at 3 pm at Museum #ldnont. It is the final lecture in the 2024-25 #HistoryNow! Lecture series. You can register here: museumlondon.ca/programs-eve...
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Food News! Top Stories! Toronto! March 12, 2025! American and Canadian Trade War, Ontario Tariffs! #trump #tarrifs #tradewar #steel #aluminum #uppercanada #food #news #thisweek #news #newscaster Follow Me on YouTube or Instagram For More Food News! www.youtube.com/@johnbrooker...
No
that is what you were TAUGHT
the #BritishNavy kept your ports & sealanes free of the #Spanish, #French & #Portuguese
The #RichFucks DIDNT wanna #PAY #TAXES
Thousands of #Colonists didnโt agree & moved North to #SouthernOntario #UpperCanada because they thought that was Fโstupid
Sound familiarโ๏ธ
No
that is what you were TAUGHT
the #BritishNavy kept your ports & sealanes free of the #Spanish, #French & #Portuguese
The #RichFucks DIDNT wanna #PAY #TAXES
Thousands of #Colonists didnโt agree & moved North to #SouthernOntario #UpperCanada because they thought that was Fโstupid
Sound familiarโ๏ธ
what you were TAUGHT is skewed
the #BritishNavy kept your #ports & sealanes free of the #Spanish, #French & #Portuguese
The #RichFucks DIDNT wanna #PAY #TAXES
Thousands of #Colonists didnโt agree & moved North to #SouthernOntario #UpperCanada because they thought that was Fโstupid
Sound familiarโ๏ธ
No
that is what you were TAUGHT
the #BritishNavy kept your ports & sealanes free of the #Spanish, #French & #Portuguese
The #RichFucks DIDNT wanna #PAY #TAXES
Thousands of #Colonists didnโt agree & moved North to #SouthernOntario #UpperCanada because they thought that was Fโstupid
Sound familiarโ๏ธ
No
that is what you were TAUGHT
the #BritishNavy kept your ports & sealanes free of the #Spanish, #French & #Portuguese
The #RichFucks DIDNT wanna #PAY #TAXES
Thousands of #Colonists didnโt agree & moved North to #SouthernOntario #UpperCanada because they thought that was a stupid
Sound familiarโ๏ธ
No that is what you were TAUGHT
the #BritishNavy kept your ports & sealanes free of the #Spanish, #French & #Portuguese
The #RichFucks DIDNT wanna PAY TAXES
Thousands of #Colonists didnโt agree & moved North to #SouthernOntario #UpperCanada because they thought that was a stupid
Sound familiarโ๏ธ
That #Nationalist #propaganda grows fucking thin #Murica
when you go to the #ArtGalleryOfOntario there is a TINY #pocket-sized red ๐บ๏ธ map book ๐ my Mumโs Family created The #ChisholmMap:
Why? Because asshole #Muricans kept raiding #UpperCanada, #stealing #raping & #burning down farms
#CDNpoli ๐ #US
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UPDATE (11/2024)
*re-organized shelf/ display area*
UPD: HOLCOMBE 1 (binder needed), HOLCOMBE 2, and
B2 BRUNSKILL
WIP: certificate#2: #UpperCanada society
WIP: #SonOfAWitch certificate: John CARRINGTON; and,
WIP: certificate#3: #FillesAMarier Catherine Isabelle SAINT-PERE (L6T2-B9J)
You can discern whether a Canadian is from West of Quebec or East of Quebec by how they pronounce "Damn, Daniel, back at it again with the white Vans"
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