The rise of a robust Iron Canyon Reverbera in the fields of farmers in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
Aligned in formation behind its smoker canyon there are a dozen members of the Canadian Function Infantry Regiment, dressed in thorough uniforms. Some have mosques, others a life and drum.
For decades, the group has recreated battles and crucial moments of the War of 1812. The United States declared war in Britain at that time due partly due to skirmishes and interference, as well as the forced recruitment of Americans in the British Naval Service.
During the war, the Americans tried to take land controlled by the British in Canada, but they found a strong resistance of a united front of British, Canadian, Methis and indigenous combatants.
The fenzement have represented their regiment in Europe and deeply in the “enemy territory” in the United States to commemorate numerous notable battles. The group usually addresses New York in February to help recreate the battle of Ogdensburg, a British victory.
But this year, they stayed.
“All our members are quite well the Canadians, and many of them are very angry, as many Canadians are, about the situation and doubted the border,” said David Moore, who acts as the largest of the Canadian infantry regiment in Fencable, also known as the hill.
It is true that the Canadian dollar has not helped, but the talk of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to make Canada, state 51 is maintaining the fenzementables firmly on this side of the St Lawrence River.
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“There have been events in the United States, in New York and Michigan, etc., and everyone has said: ‘No, I think we are going to pass and wait and see how all this develops, to see if rhetoric fades,” said Moore.
‘About my body’
Many of the nearby have deep roots in this part of the southeast of Ontario, with ancestors who fought for the British in the war of 1812 and beyond.
“My family has received properties from Americans before. So that is my apprehension [about crossing the border]”Shawn Finnegan said, who draws his family’s roots in the return area before the American revolution.
Donald Trump repeatedly referred former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “governor” and has insisted that Canada “only works as a state.” Trump has also called the Canada-EE border. Uu. An “artificial line”.
Finnegan said that the annexation talk is “quite disturbing” taking into account “that we help them during and after September 11”, referring to the fact that more than 200 flights were diverted to Canada after the US airspace closed in response to the Al-Qaeda attack on September 11, 2001. Canada took thousands of passengers from the passengers until it was safe to resume normal operations.
“We move forward to help them in their need, and this is more or less their gratitude to us: they want to take us over. So, like many Canadians, it is a type of body feeling over the body.”
John Osinski, a 1812 war recreator who lives in Middleburgh, New York, feels the separation of his Canadian friends.
“Oh, we lost the francs,” he said. “We need each other. We cannot tell our stories, our mutual stories, below. We cannot tell them without the other.”
Osinski, who often represents a New York militia unit that was offered as a volunteer for federal service in December 1812, said it is optimistic that current tensions between countries will be resolved.
“We have experienced these kinds of things in our history in the past. And the war of 1812 did not achieve anything, actually, apart from causing more destruction. And people on the border, on both sides, were not really in favor of what happened,” he said.
“I don’t suspect for a moment that [the Trump administration] He is trying to make Canada a state 51, “he said.” But [the notion] It causes difficult times and we only have to overcome it. “
Craig Russell, another American friend who often plays the role of an officer of the Clinton County militia, New York, shares that feeling.
“I’m 20 miles from the border,” he said. “I play tuba in a concert band in Montreal, a summer band. I do many things in both countries, culturally and historically.”
“Mine is that we do all this and move on. It’s just a crisis that doesn’t have to be,” said Russell.
Friends expect tensions to be facilitated for when the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of the War of Independence in 2026, maybe even much earlier.
Importance of history
Meanwhile, the Functibles are committed to marking important battles on the Canadian side of the border.
Putting the uniform and celebrating the history of the nation has become particularly significant for Moore at this time.
“If you don’t actively cling to your inheritance, it is lost,” said Moore. “So, when a question arises, should we join the United States? Well, if you don’t know the country in which you are, then it is hard for you to answer that.
“But if you know your story, if you know what happened here, then I think it is more likely to say that this is a country that is worth defending, our history, our nation, and remain independent.”
