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Montreal (Welcome to...)

2019-10-21 · 1,133 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

Montreal (Welcome to...) — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. "We shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada." – Tho
Montreal (Welcome to...) — pen and ink drawing

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"We shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada." – Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Rogers Clark (25 December 1780)

"[O]ne of the great events of our time... So it is that everywhere in Canada, and especially here in the heart of French Canada, there seethes a life of intensity, a deep will for renewal. All we see, everywhere in Canada, is a shock of ideas, questions, demands, projects, a whole vigorous churning which is the tumult of life itself." – Queen Elizabeth II, speech at the Montreal's world's fair in 1967

"Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip…

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