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Originally Posted by you&me
This has me wondering - did Canada "bid" on Alaska?
Edit - Googled for myself... a) Canada was still a British colony and wasn't a country yet and b) Great Britain and Russia were still imperialistic rivals, so the US was perceived to be the friendlier purchaser from the Russian perspective. |
Yeah, at the time, both Canada and India were British controlled. Russia didn't want Britain to its West, South, and East simultaneously. So they sold to the U.S. instead.