The quest for Canada
“It seems the last thing Franklin and his congressional confrères might have imagined is that ‘Canada’ would go on to become a sovereign country of its own, the thing the Americans were aiming for, exclusive of the shiny new USA.” Steven Brown reviews He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada, by Madelaine Drohan (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2025) $27.99 / 9781459754188