When my brother and I were still in middle school, my parents took us every summer for a week or longer to Canada. My dad drove the entire way, never stopping except to eat or get gas. Our goal was the Ontario city of Gananoque in Ontario. Here, we stayed for one night in a perfectly wonderful motel that was clean and manned by a friendly staff. In the morning we had a full breakfast, bacon and eggs, toast, and great coffee. It was, for us kids, a treat since every school day we ate farina or oatmeal.

We drove east, stopped at historical sights and eventually came to out destination: Nova Scotia. Here we spent a week with family friends who own a small knitting mill making sweaters. The first weekend, however, my dad and his old friend went into town to buy about dozens  lobsters. We all had fun cracking them open and piling the meat on the kitchen table. That's when I got my lifelong taste for lobster!

Another fun experience I recall was visiting Fort Niagara, where so many conferences had taken place in colonial times between the indigenous tribes, the British, French, and American colonial representatives. I recall seeing a sign that is was the "Rush-Baggot" Treaty line; the official border between Canada and the United States.

One year we took a popular Thousand Island cruise. Another year we stopped at Fort William Henry, a military outpost featured in the Hollywood fil, "The last of the Mohicans," a novel written in the 1800's by James Fennimore Copper. But I would also recommend Allan Eckert's "Frontiersman" and other books he's written about this time period, all very well written and footnoted for fact.

Walter Edmonds was another superb writer whose books like "Paint a very colorful picture of the colonial period of " Drums along the Mohawk'" That movie starred Henry Fonda as Gill and Claudette Colbert as his wife . Edna May Oliver plays a noteworthy role as well. But Canada was never seriously up for grab's 

The Techumseh conspiracy was defeated and things settled to Status Quo Ante-Bellum. And so it's been since we was a kids, marveling at the clear, exciting land we colorful neighbor to the north!

While we are at it, Let plus the book, "Night Probe" by Clive Cussler who recenly pass away. who recently passed away. The book is a lively James Bond type action story with the premises' that the US has always owned Canada by virtue of an old treaty that was lost long ago Or was it? One copy was aboard the Empress of Ireland,'the ship sank. There we only two copies of the treaty'. Another my have been lost on a ghost train. Clive was always prescient in many of his books. The Ghost train supposed plunged into a dep river bed abd then covered with mud for decades.

It is available in paperback and was published in1981.And so the saga continues. Who will own Canada?