Talk:Israel D. Andrews

• ... that Israel D. Andrews believed that promoting foreign trade would eventually lead to U.S. annexation of future Canadian territory? Source: Andrews petitioned the Department of State to be appointed U.S. consul in St. John, New Brunswick, and received the appointment in March 1843 ... He used his consular appointments to promote formal American-provincial commercial ties, which he believed would hasten provincial independence from Britain and eventual union with the United States.
  • ALT1: ... that a historian called Israel D. Andrews "the first American to develop, articulate, and promote a coherent U.S. policy toward Canada"? Source: Andrews was also the first American to develop, articulate, and promote a coherent U.S. policy toward Canada and was a forerunner of the commercial expansionists and the Anglo-Saxon Union movement of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bogalusa, Louisiana
  • Comment: QPQ is a quickfail (some of which I want to get out of the way if need be) and is allowed per DYK rules. If Province of Canada must be linked for ALT1, so be it.

ミラP@Miraclepine 15:51, 4 May 2026 (UTC).

• New enough (Apr 27), long enough (4800 B), well-sourced, no copyvio (Earwig flags correctly attributed quotes and proper nouns). ALT0 is definitely interesting enough to get clicks. Good to go. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 21:50, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

@Miraclepine and Vigilantcosmicpenguin: Agree that ALT0 is interesting, but not sure about the "foreign trade" part (as that suggests trade more broadly with third parties that aren't the United States Canada) and not sure what "future Canadian territory" is referring to. Also think this sentence in the article is rather unclear and needs to be revised or split into two: He supported an eventual unification of Canada and the United States as one nation, reportedly during the Civil War, though he once assured the pro-slavery Southern senators that the Reciprocity Treaty would not result in the provinces becoming U.S. territory, Cielquiparle (talk) 23:36, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

@Cielquiparle: I've fixed the ALT0 to address the issues, as well as the long sentence:

• ALT0b: ... that Israel D. Andrews believed that promoting trade with the Province of Canada would eventually lead to U.S. annexation? Source: Andrews petitioned the Department of State to be appointed U.S. consul in St. John, New Brunswick, and received the appointment in March 1843 ... He used his consular appointments to promote formal American-provincial commercial ties, which he believed would hasten provincial independence from Britain and eventual union with the United States.

ミラP@Miraclepine 00:24, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

• Comment as I review for promotion @Miraclepine, Vigilantcosmicpenguin, and Cielquiparle: I don't actually see the hook fact relating to annexation for ALT0/ALT0b in the article, just a statement that Andrews "was a continentalist who believed that geography had created two great outlets, the Mississippi and the St Lawrence, for the heartland of North America", which is not quite the same thing. Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:08, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

• @Dclemens1971: The article says As consul, he lobbied for the promotion of trade between the United States and Canada in the hopes that the provinces would become a part of the United States, often lobbying the country's Secretaries of State to reduce trade barriers such as tariffs and to promote reciprocal trade. Give me time to make a minor fix since ANB access is finally back at WL. ミラP@Miraclepine 02:36, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
• Okay, the change means it would probably have to be:
• ALT0c: ... that Israel D. Andrews believed that promoting trade with the provinces of British North America would eventually lead to U.S. annexation? Source: Andrews petitioned the Department of State to be appointed U.S. consul in St. John, New Brunswick, and received the appointment in March 1843 ... He used his consular appointments to promote formal American-provincial commercial ties, which he believed would hasten provincial independence from Britain and eventual union with the United States.
• ミラP@Miraclepine 02:48, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

• Giving a tick to ALT0c. Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:41, 8 June 2026 (UTC)