America Almost Annexed This Country Inside Canada

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]In 1869, a fully armed country existed inside Canada and America almost took it. Canada just bought a territory the size of Western Europe from a fur trading company. Nobody asked the 10,000 people already living there, so they built their own nation, president, army, laws, flag. The provisional government of Assiniboia sitting right above Minnesota on the US border. 500 warriors seized the only fort. They literally turned the Canadian governor back at the American boundary line. American expansionists ran a newspaper inside that territory pushing annexation. A petition landed on President Grant's desk make us American.

[00:00:44]Grant said no. Canada panicked and invented an entire new province overnight just to hold the land. That province is Manitoba. The man who built that country, Canada, hanged him.

[00:00:55]>> Did some people want the territory to join America? So please guys answer the question. Thank you so much for watching. Goodbye and take care.