On 6/6/2012 2:15 PM, X ` Man wrote:
On 6/6/12 2:07 PM, North Star wrote:
On Jun 6, 2:59 pm, wrote:
On 6/6/2012 12:45 PM, North Star wrote:









On Jun 6, 12:46 pm, wrote:
On 6/6/2012 11:13 AM, North Star wrote:

On Jun 6, 10:29 am, wrote:
On Tuesday, June 5, 2012 8:12:02 PM UTC-4, North Star wrote:
On Jun 5, 12:12 pm, wrote:
"Oscar" wrote in message

b.com...

On 6/3/2012 11:27 PM, North Star wrote:

On Jun 2, 12:43 am, Chuck
wrote:
Then considered America's "longest war", an armed standoff
between US
and British troops on San Juan Island was part of a larger
border
dispute. The simplified, popular version of the tale recounts
that the
war began when a US settler shot a Hudson Bay Company pig,
but very
few people actually know how the war ended. Find out how the
Confederate Navy played an important role in the crazy
political drama
that finally ended the war and established a permanent
international
border.

www.pacnwboat.com

Here's some local activity from that same time period.
http://www.tfoenander.com/tallahassee.htm

Nice story.
The note at the end of the story says "Also, it should be added,
newspaper accounts are usually rather unreliable, and should be
approached with caution." How true.

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Halifax would be a viable home to anti American people. Lots of
Halifax was
settled after the revolutionary war by British loyalists from
the USA.
They could not abide being the losers and still live on this
side of the
border.

Not just Halifax. So many came that they decided to split the
original Nova Scotia into two provinces... us and New Brunswick.
$%^%$#$ yanks... always trying to take over and change perfectly
good
situations.

So the losers from down here came up there, kicked your ass, then
pushed you off into your own province?

That's hilarious!!

Well Dummy... my mother's people were part of those loyalists.
Dutch/Danish who had property in Harlem. First they did settle in
what is now New Brunswick but eventually came over to the good decent
God fearin' people of the Digby area.
A lot of those Loyalists people were of substance in New England and
probably felt they deserved something from the British for staying
loyal and losing everything.
BTW we already had our own province... they just took a little more
than half of it and created a new province.
I guess we can't complain, they acted as a buffer between us and that
rabble south of the border. ;-)

Thus leaving you hanging onto Canada by a thread of land. Who knows.
Maybe the next perfect storm will break you free and leave you
rabble on
your own fantacy Island.

So what?
Two of the four Atlantic Provinces are already islands. If it happens
to us I'll be able to boat all the way around our fair province.

In that beer can boat of yours?

Suppose I could borrow that little 'rubber ducky' raft of yours.



"Oscar" is a real piece of ****. He obviously doesn't want "boating" or
boating history or maritime discussions here, but only opportunities to
post his junior high school insults.

Maybe he should get a pair of oars for his dinghy, the one he borrows
from his neighbor.


So your response is elementary school insults? smh