12th April 2003, 2:16 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Darunia
[B]Ah, but it was the Canadians that burnt it down...
I spent some time trying to look that up, but failed. All resources point to Brits burning it. Prove me wrong. [/B]
Canada was at the time a British colony so most of the resources you can acces probably would list it as the British, but I've read in countless social textbooks and seen at several museums that the exact regiment that torched the white house was a milita group from York
Bell imigrated from Scotland to Canada, he developed the phone in canada but tested it in the US(it may have been the other way around), the first long distance phone call was between two Canadian cities, and Bell's headquarters world headquarters were in Montreal until those US laws that don't allow a company to be to big forced their American divisions to be split at which point the headquarters of Bell became Bell Canada's headquarters and Bell was split into all those other companies like Northwest Bell etc.