Word: goldwin
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Queen Victoria (following the confidential advice of Canada's Governor General, Sir Edmund Head) chose Ottawa as Canada's capital in 1857. The late Goldwin Smith* thought it a poor choice. His snorted comment: "A subarctic village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit." Ottawa (pop. about 160,000) is no longer a village. Neither is it the "Washington of the North" that Sir Wilfrid Laurier hoped that it would be. It is not for want of trying...
...brilliant Oxford-trained historian, Goldwin Smith went to the U.S. in 1868 to teach at Cornell, later moved to Canada where he edited the Canadian Monthly. Despite the unpopularity of such views in Canada, he always argued that the ultimate union of the U.S. and the Dominion, and the breaking of Canadian ties with Britain, were economically inevitable...
...GOLDWIN GREGORY...