When America Tried to Win Canada
The failure of American colonists to win Canadian hearts and minds 250 years ago offers lessons for responding to current meddling in the Alberta separatism debate.
Madelaine Drohan
GSPIA Fellow at the University of Ottawa and author of He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada
Madelaine Drohan is a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), University of Ottawa, a former Canada correspondent for The Economist, and a former foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail. During her journalism career, she covered politics, economics, and business in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Europe. She is the author of the book He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada.
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