Donald Trump has provided us with yet another reason to preserve the name of Dundas St. in Toronto.

As someone who has deeply researched the topic, I can tell you this: Dundas Street is a beacon of Canadian strength against a hostile USA.

Buckle up and I’ll tell you why. 🧵
In the late 1700s, the US was running out of raw land to develop, and set its sights on claiming parts of Upper and Lower Canada.

American border raiders staged incursions into Canada, trying forcefully to stake claims to parts of what are now Quebec and Ontario.

Toronto City Councillor Chris Moise is making up new facts about Henry Dundas, the man after whom Dundas Street is named.

His error-ridden presentation was recently made public on YouTube. 🧵 Moise’s first lie was saying that Henry Dundas was Britain’s “Minister of Immigration and Slavery.”

Fact: HD was Britain’s Home Secretary. After France declared war on Britain, he became the War Secretary.

Who knew that someday Donald Trump would provide Canadians with a new reason to appreciate the historical roots of Dundas Street, in Toronto and other parts of Ontario. 🧵
It all goes back to 1792, when Upper Canada’s first lieutenant-governor, John Graves Simcoe, was organizing the province’s military operations.

Americans were staging border raids raids on Canadian soil in an effort to seize new lands for their expanding population. (The hostilities culminated in the War of 1812.)