Go East, young man: Eastern Canada offers viability for LNG projects—Part 1
2/1/2018
The phrase, “Go West, young man” is widely credited to the American New-York Tribune newspaper editor and author Horace Greeley in the year 1865. The full text of the quote reads: “Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.” Greeley was addressing opportunities for soldiers who had the good fortune to survive the horrors of the US Civil War only to return to a civilian life where jobs were scarce as the nation demobilized from war footing. He was promoting the emerging West Coast as a new frontier of promise and opportunity. An interesting parallel
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