02/10/25 Afternoon CommStock Report- The New State(s) Of Canada…Here is Some Advice

Canadians did not take President Trump’s invitation to become the US 51st state very well. I have a Canadian family acquaintance that I called to get him and his wife’s take on our offer for their country to join us as a state. It was a very cold response. As I have previously mentioned, my mother’s side of the family settled in Quebec in 1644 as part of the original group of 800 French families whose travel was paid for by the King of France as incentive to settle New France. My ancestors were one of the founders of Marysville, a town of 11,300 today, which is located north of Montreal in which they were issued a deed to land by the King. This is where my great-great grandparents were married. I have been there. The Demers family has flourished in Canada and has a website and annual family reunions to this day. They still speak French (and English). My direct ancestors in the family emigrated to Kanekee, Illinois in the 1850s to find work… with 4 double great uncles serving in the Illinois infantry in the Union Army in the civil war. After the war they settled in western Iowa…