With the looming threat of an American invasion and the cancellation of the Canadian-American
Reciprocity Treaty, the Canadian colonies look to unite.
McDougall was in Washington to negotiate the
Reciprocity Treaty. Lincoln.
The American military has had a presence in Hawaii since use of Pearl River (Pearl Harbor) was provided by the 1876
Reciprocity Treaty during the reign of King David Kalakaua.
The signing of the
Reciprocity Treaty between Great Britain and the United States in 1854 created an immediate demand for many Canadian products, especially flour.
In March 1865, the Americans gave notice they intended to cancel the
Reciprocity Treaty of 1854.
Prior to Confederation and especially in the mid-1800s, the Maritime provinces prospered on an economy based on staple resources such as timber and the fisheries as well as shipbuilding and coal production aided greatly in later years by the
Reciprocity Treaty with the United States.
So too the purposes of tariff policy expanded, from an initial preoccupation with revenue collection, to a growing desire for "incidental protection' during the
Reciprocity Treaty era, to the articulation of a broad "harmony of interests' nurtured by "protective nationalism' in the mid-1870s.