Book description
The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.
Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined…
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1 author picked A Line of Blood and Dirt as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Donald Trump called the western US-Canada border along the 49th parallel “an artificially drawn line” that is “imaginary.”
I loved Hoy’s book because it shows that Trump is right, but for the wrong reasons. The colonists who drew the line on a map had zero knowledge of the land on the ground, which was inhabited by Indigenous and First Nations peoples.
The straight line of the border created odd geographical features like the Northwest Angle and Point Roberts, and split traditional lands in nonsensical ways. The border is artificial, but the implication of that is not that Canada should be…
From Reece's list on understanding the US-Canada border.
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