Rochrox and Spinner45 unite to write an article on important people in Canada.

Hey! This week something special has happened. What, you ask? Why, Roch and I have teamed up to come up with this special edition article called "Eh! Important People: Canada!" For this article, we will be together talking about four important people from the country Canada! We have together written this article on important people from Canada, therefore, combining our columns! So, for this week, here is your important people and your Canadian info:

Laura Ingersoll

Laura Ingersoll was born to a Loyalist family in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1775. In 1795 the family moved to the Canadas, and in 1797 she married a fellow Loyalist, James Secord. They resided in Queenston in Upper Canada (present-day Ontario),

In May of 1813 the American army invaded again and the Secord home was forced to billet three American officers. On June 21, Laura overheard them discussing plans for a surprise attack on Lieutenant James Fitzgibbon at Beaver Dams, which would have allowed the Americans to control the Niagara Peninsula.

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Screamxx writes about a South African leader.

I'm sure many of you know about segregation, the separation of blacks and whites. In the 1960s "freedom fighters" such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters lead the Civil Rights Movement to stop segregation and finally allow the blacks to vote. But, were you aware that such segregation continued into the early 90s in South Africa?

Now, in South Africa everyone who wants to vote, can. Before the uprising of the ANC, the African National Congress, the political life of the people of South Africa was limited to the white citizens only. Realizing that this was unfair, the ANC was created in 1923 and an army was established in 1961. The ANC was seen by many in the main stream politics of the country as a communistic society and a terrorist threat, none of which were true. After many years of fighting for their cause, along came a man named Nelson Mandela.

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