Birth of Modern Canada in 1867

Canada exists today mostly because everyone was broke and terrified of an American invasion. Back in the 1860s,

British North America was a total mess with failing economies and political deadlock. The Maritime colonies

planned a small meeting to fix things, but the Province of Canada literally crashed the conference

and pitched a massive union instead. After weeks of arguing over the rules, and despite Newfoundland

and PEI bailing out, they pulled it off. Britain signed the BNA Act,

Sir John A. Macdonald took the lead, and just like that, modern Canada was

born on July 1st, 1867.