@br00t4c yes, we owe the Boston Merchants a couple of favours. Not only the huge help given after the Halifax Explosion of December 1917; but also in the 1600s .
Dutch raiders tried to establish "Nova Hollandia" in what is now the Province of New Brunswick, in an attempt to subdue well established Acadien settlers and Mi'kmaq first nations , to restrict trade. The good folk of Boston quickly assembled a privateer navy and placed the ring leader in the gibbet.