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How the English Invented the Scots
An old favourite! The obvious, belaboured role played by Scots in shaping Canada is really a facet of their wider role as empire-builders, writes C.P. Champion. The intertwined history of Scots and English suggests that if misery can make for strange bedfellows, so too can shared interests.
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