Does Alberta really want to join the USA?

@trollslayer I'm glad I've set something interesting off. I hesitated for 48hrs before deciding it might be worth a discussion.

@FreddieUK I have an interesting job that touches on geography, earth sciences, history, and legal issues. I find it interesting how something like a topographic barrier or a change in soil type influences local politics and creates division due to resources and public funding.

@trollslayer Canada proper is a tiny strip of land that runs along the St Laurence and into the golden triangle formed by the great lakes. The rest of Canada is the realms to be governed over by Canada proper. Of course Canada Proper was formed by a large number of United Empire Loyalists. IOW Americans who didn't agree with the American Revolution. Their descendants continue to hold a hatred for America that makes no sense. In the mean time in the late 1800s and early 1900s many many many American farmers and ranchers moved to what is now Alberta. They prospered and became 'canadian' even though they were never actually accepted as equal. They don't have proper representation in either house of Parliament and the UEL have repeatedly tried to shut down Alberta's economy to the benefit of Canada Proper. Funny family story. On Dad's side both his parents were born in the USA. They came to Canada in 1904 before Alberta became a province. After WWI Canada Proper became concerned that Alberta was too American. The British had a problem of too many big families to feed so Canada took the large British families and had them settle in Alberta. My Mother came from a family of 13 Welsh children. She came to Canada when she was 3. She married an American/Canadian. Sadly there remains a huge bias against Alberta. I didn't realise how deep until I went to Toronto a few times over the years. Alberta will never get a fair shake in Canada. The bigotries simply run too deep. Witness someone down voted my earlier post explaining that the Native Treaties gave the land to the province.

@hippyjoe1955 Lots of mormon settlers in Alberta, correct?

@hippyjoe1955 Most interesting, Joe, thanks.

@trollslayer There are a few but not nearly as many as you might imagine. Most of the Americans were German Americans. A lot of them had homesteaded in the Dakotas 20 years before moving to what would become Alberta. My great grandparents who homesteaded in both places spoke German at home. They were very devout Christians. Grandpa was the local preacher who supplemented his income by farming. His first church in Canada was made of sod. There is a picture of it in one of the churches in town.