Happy Independence Day, you Yanks!

[Bob Potter]

As one whose roots go deep in the US, and as someone who tries to teach our history to the occasionally unwilling, I am pleased when our achievements are recognized, as our media seems to have an entirely different focus.

One of my great-great-grandfathers came from Lundy's Lane where he was for forty-one years caretaker of the Drummond Hill cemetery. He crossed into New York to enlist in the Union Army in the Civil War. He returned and died and was buried there.

I tell my students that an important foundation of Canadian history was made by the United Empire Loyalists, so we are closer than some might want us to be.

You seem to have celebrated Dominion Day on the 1st, haven't you? I lift my mug to you.

Bob Potter