Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Bennes, and every week I sit down for a 40-minute conversation

with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by Professor Jeffers Lennox, where I ask him,

what's the deal with Canada's origin story?

Welcome to Get It Curious, this is a major episode I'm so excited and it's a long time coming.

Our guest is, someone who has an incredibly cool name,

he is Jeffers Lennox, who is an associate professor of history at Wesleyan University.

He studies early North America from the 17th to early 19th centuries.

His specific areas of interest include the British, French, and Indigenous relations in Northeastern, North America,

and the impact that Canada had on the American Revolution and the creation of the United States.

Welcome Jeffers!

Thank you so much for having me, this is a real thrill.

This is where the origin story of my curiosity for this episode came from, I need you to know.

As many my own business, learning about what a day in the life of Philadelphia wasn't 1775.

When I learned from this historian, that Canada was also a colony, the 13 colony, they were like,

we want to break away and Canada was like, honey, this is too problematic for us.

Other than not just in Theroux, but just in Trudeau being very attractive,

I don't know enough about my origin story of Canada, and that's where you come in.

Fantastic, well I'm happy to help and you fall right into the trap that I give my students when I say,

how many colonies were there at the time of the American Revolution and they all say,

13 and I say, no that's wrong, try again.

28!

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