"Farmers feed cities, but starting in the nineteenth century they painted them too. Flax from Canada and the northern United States produced fibre for textiles and linseed oil for paint - critical commodities in a century when wars were fought over fibre and when increased urbanization demanded...

Building North American nation-states, 1774-1871 -- Canada in the shadow of industrial America, 1871-1903 -- Beginning a bilateral relationship, 1903-1918 -- A relationship matures, 1919-1938 -- World War to Cold War, 1939-1947 -- Canada in the new American empire, 1948-1960 -- The moose that...