Minnesota and the Manifest Destiny of the Canadian Northwest ... - 9781487599058

Minnesota and the Manifest Destiny of the Canadian NorthwestA Study in Canadian-American Relations\nAuthor(s): Alvin C. Gluek Jr.\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9781487599058, 978-1487599058\nSynopsis\nFrom the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains, only a line separates Canada from the United Statesthe mute evidence of each nation's manifest destiny. As a boundary, the 49th parallel is entirely manmade and will never really divide the Northern Great Plains, for it is a region at once geographically and historically united. Certainly from 1821 to [tel], the years limiting this study, a unity was most evident; the history of the British Northwest was inextricably bound up with that of the American Northwest. \n\n Professor Gluek gives here a detailed and engrossing account of the complex relationship that developed between St. Paul and the Red River Settlement from 1821 to 1870. During this time, de.