The North Star -- Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln

[David Lockmiller]

https://www.tvo.org/video/who-were-canad...he-us-civi

Excellent video. I highly recommend watching the entirety.

3:38 mark:

There was huge swaths of the Canadian population, especially the elite - the bankers, the newspaper owners, the politicians, the church leaders - they had much more sympathy for the aristocracy in the South than the [people in] the North.

Many Canadians, tens of thousands of Canadians, and especially large numbers of black Canadians from southern Ontario, went to fight on Lincoln's side. But the Canadian establishment were pro-South.

The rest of the interview are the vivid details of this dichotomy ("division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups" - dictionary.com).

New York Times - The Morning - May 13, 2023

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