Kathleen’s Reviews > Troublous Times in Canada: A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870 > Status Update

I finished The Fenian Raid of 1868 and have read the first four chapters of The Fenian Raid of 1870. My eyes are sleepy, so must stop reading for the night.

The Fenian Raid cost Canada precious lives and great expenditure. It demonstrated that Canadians were loyal and patriotic and were true to their flag and the freedom it symbolized. Canadians were capable of protecting themselves, and were ready at all times to do their duty to defend their native land. It taught them "a lesson in self-reliance.

John A. MacDonald writes about the role the Neutrality Act between the United States and Canada played. Many Fenians were stopped and their ammunition and weapons were confiscated by American officials watching the border between the two countries. The head of States did not want the Fenians and their actions to drawn draw America into a war against Canada.