By Christopher Scott | Whistle Stop Cafe
"Part I – Confederation as a Crown Enterprise
A Country Born by Contract ***Every Canadian schoolchild is told that Canada was born in 1867, the product of high-minded statesmen who joined four colonies in peaceful union. The image is neat, patriotic, and harmless. But when you open the paperwork behind that myth—the British North America Act itself—the story looks far less like the birth of a nation and far more like the closing of a business deal."