After Trump’s idea to make neighboring country the 51st state: why have Canada and the US never been one country?

Once you get over the shock — does Trump really want to annex Canada? — may raise the question of why Canada and the US have never historically become one large continental state. “It is not that the Americans did not try to take Canada,” says professor of colonial history Idesbald Goddeeris (KU Leuven). A dive into history.

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