We spent a lot of money commemorating the bicentennial of the War, for one thing. I don't know if Americans did the same.
Some more ignorant Canadians like to joke that "we" were the ones who burned down the White House during a raid on Washington. Our inferiority complex vis-a-vis you at work. But this is wrong: there might have been the odd Canadian in the British troops that did that, but it wasn't exclusively Canada.
I should note here, as a Canadian historian, that Canada as such did not exist under that name officially until 1867. In Madison's time, it existed as the independent colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (now, respectively, Ontario and Quebec), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
We spent a lot of money commemorating the bicentennial of the War, for one thing. I don't know if Americans did the same.
Some more ignorant Canadians like to joke that "we" were the ones who burned down the White House during a raid on Washington. Our inferiority complex vis-a-vis you at work. But this is wrong: there might have been the odd Canadian in the British troops that did that, but it wasn't exclusively Canada.
I should note here, as a Canadian historian, that Canada as such did not exist under that name officially until 1867. In Madison's time, it existed as the independent colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (now, respectively, Ontario and Quebec), New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
Thanks for clarifying that, David. In Canadian history, how do they tell the story of US invasion during the War of 1812?