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Podcast: Brian Crombie Radio Hour
Episode: Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 1424 - Benjamin Franklin's North American Impact with Madelaine Drohan
Description: Tonight on The Brian Crombie Hour, Brian interviews Madelaine Drohan about her book: "He Did Not Conquer - Benjamin Franklin's Failure to Annex Canada". Throughout his long and illustrious career, Franklin nursed a not-so-secret desire to annex Canada and make it American. When he was not busy conducting scientific experiments or representing American interests at home and abroad, Benjamin Franklin hatched one plan after another to join Canada to the American colonies and then later to the United States. These were not solely intellectual efforts. He went to Montreal in 1776 to try to turn around the faltering occupation by American...