Ultimately Canada rejected the American model. The ideal of democracy offended the British overlords and also threatened the Catholic seigneurs of Quebec, who had little use for revolutionary ideology, particularly coming from “anti-Papist” New England Protestants. Twice, in 1775-76 and during the War of 1812, the U.S. invaded Canada, expecting an embrace, but was met with indifference and even hostility.
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