It wasn't an official country as yet, but all the regions north of a certain boundary were known as "Canada" even then. People living there (indians, French settlers, British settlers, metis etc) were referred to as Canadians, at least in all the history books I've read.
Many online references also back this up....
http://www.history.army.mil/books/amh/amh-06.htm
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To Great Britain the War of I8I2 was simply a burdensome adjunct of its greater struggle against Napoleonic France. To the Canadians it was clearly a case of naked American aggression. But to the Americans it was neither simple nor clear. The United States entered the war with confused objectives and divided loyalties and made peace without settling any of the issues that had induced the nation to go to war.
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http://home.earthlink.net/~gfeldmeth/chart.1812.html
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Invasion attempts of Canada -- 1812 U.S. -- Canadian border -- 3 attempts of U.S. to invade Canada all fail.
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The British were instrumental in the burning of the whitehouse, yes, but the war itself was with CANADA. Do some reading in this chronology for example:
http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/chronology/index.html and it becomes clear that the northern almost 2/3's of N. America was already known and referred to as CANADA, the people that lived there CANADIANS.
But it's all splitting hairs anyway. Who cares, the fact is if the US had of invaded Australia back then and got repelled there would have also been a significant British involvement there as well. But history books would have listed the Aussies as being the ones that beat back the invaders.
Quit quibbling and just admit we whipped your asses. Even then your population outweighed ours by 10 to 1.
Ancient history though. Today I wish you all peace, joy and happiness in the holiday season. :D