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| | Montreal Annexation Manifesto - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Montreal Annexation Manifesto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The Montreal Annexation Manifesto was a political document, published in 1849 in Montreal, Quebec, calling for Canada's annexation by the United States. |
 | | The Manifesto was published by the Annexation Association, an alliance of Montreal businessmen, who were opposed to Britain's abolition of duties on Canadian lumber, wheat and flour and by its consent to the Rebellion Losses Bill, and French Canadian radical nationalists (including Louis-Joseph Papineau) who supported the republican system of government in the United States. |
 | | In appealing to our fellow-colonists to unite with us in this our most needful duty, we solemnly conjure them, as they desire a successful issue and the welfare of their country, to enter upon the task at this momentous crisis in the same fraternal spirit. |
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