“You don’t see any RC-W was wrong t-shirts. Do you?”

“Those sold out two hours ago.”

I heard back from CP about what I thought was an error.

Canada West was between Upper Canada and Ontario

I sent an e-mail asking about it. i wrote:

The CP story about the sale of the building at 10 Toronto Street in Toronto refers to the origins of the building.”It was built for the Province of Upper Canada — Ontario before Confederation — as a post office and was later used by the Bank of Canada.”

This doesn’t make sense to me. The building was built in the 1850s and at that time the area was Canada West in the amalgamated province of Canada. The Union Act of 1840 amalgamated Upper Canada and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada in 1841.

Why does the story refer to Upper Canada?

John V e-mailed me back and copied whom I assume are his bosses saying:

You are right. The information was taken from a news release put out by Morgan Meighen which said the building was “built for the Province of Upper Canada as the No. 7 Post office . . . ” We plan a corrective on this today. Rgds

I think this is just indicative of the lack of knowledge we have of Canadian history. Though I do remember hearing about a theme park in the USA that credited Jefferson with the drafting of consittutional documents instead of the declaration of independance. I see that as a more elementary error.