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Hi,
Things desirable: "the
national dream" i.e. the Canadian Pacific Railroad being quietly
built with a pre-existing monopoly with the proviso, that the railway must be
built a.s.a.p. No rail wars in other words, but much more reason to build
it quickly.
Other ideas, the Hudson's Bay
Company using regularly schedule chasse-galerie canoes for express cargo.
The Chasse-galerie was a legend the voyageurs (the guys who paddled canoes full
of cargo for the Hudson's Bay Company from Montreal to the Rockies) had about
how you could cast a spell for the "usual" cost (i.e. your soul) and
paddle your canoe through the air back to Montreal in a night.
A complicated triangular love-hate
relationship with Great Britain and the neighbours to the south, with British
North America (a.k.a. Canada) in the middle.
Daniel
"Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all." Hamlet, Act III, scene i.
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