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Originally Posted by Why
stuartD
you continue to miss the point that there were no such things as Canadians at the time. at that point you were still British, so the British held us back from stealing the great lakes from their area that later went on to become Canada. since it wasn't Canada yet, its residents couldn't have possibly been Canadians.
i know its really hard to grasp for you northern north dakotians, but its true.
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Did I not say that Canada was a British colony? That doesn't mean that they weren't Canadians living in that colony. It was known EVEN THEN as Canada. That makes the people within it Canadians.
Canada, as a colony, did not exactly have Britain's military at it's disposal. It had to fend for itself as it's own separate colony, and wait for Britain's Navy for help.
Whether or not Canada was an independent nation is a moot point. As a separate colony, the people within were both British AND Canadian... as the land was known as Canada.
In the end though, it came down to the US trying to invade and failing.