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[quote user="TomDiehl"] <P>[quote user="MichaelSol"]<BR>The reasoning does not explain why we did not build a railroad to Alaska, if the reasoning were true, or to Hawaii, since anything ridiculous passes here as a justification.<BR><BR>[/quote]</P> <P>Maybe you should tell us how good our relations were with Canada in this time period. So good that they'd let the US build a railroad across their territory from Washington to Alaska? The reason is, the government owned the land for the transcontinental, they didn't own Canada.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>Ummmm, I think the US did build a highway up the whole of Western Canada, if I'm not mistaken!</P> <P>Does this mean that we really <EM>did</EM> own Canada?[:-,]</P>
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