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Canadian Involvement in Boer War by CourseCentral is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document provides information about two historical events involving Canada: the Boer War in South Africa in 1899 and an Alaska border dispute with the United States in 1889. For the Boer War, French Canadians did not want to send troops while English Canadians did, so Prime Minister Laurier compromised by sending 1000 voluntary troops paid for by Britain, with 8300 Canadians total participating. For the Alaska dispute, the US claimed the border was further inland than Canada or Britain interpreted it, a
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