If the colonists manage to win the british in canada, won't be United States now including Cananda?

Answer 1

Hi Jason,

It's not widely known; but in 1774 when the call went out to all of the colonies to send delegates to Philadelphia for the First Continental Congress, invitations went out to the colonies of Canada as well. At that time there was no distinction between America and Canada -- they were all colonies of the British, and all were invited. But the only colonies to send representatives were the 13 colonies that eventually made up the US. However, if the Canadian colonies has sent repesentatives, they too would be part of the US.

Later on, during the War of 1812, the United States attempted to seize control of the Canadian territories, and incorporate them into the US; but they were incapable of pulling this off. Once again, had they been successful, Canada would have been part of the US. So there were two attempts made to bring together the US and Canada, and they both failed.

Hope this helps. Cheers, mate.

Answer 2

In many respects a Canada independent of the American republic is really a fault of the American patriots during the revolution. Leading up to the revolution the continental congress had condemned the Quebec Act as one of the "Intolerable Acts" for a variety of reasons which had created a lot of anti-American sentiment among the French populace. We tend to see this inclusion of the Quebec Act as an "Intolerable Act" for it's legislative enforcement of the policy of containing American settlers to the area east of the Appalachians and that ought not to be underscored. What is lost in that perception though is there was also a high degree of resentment in the English colonies because the act enshrined voting, language, and property rights for the French that were quite out of place for everywhere else in the British Empire. The American colonists for the large part felt the French ought to be compelled into abandonning Catholicism and the French language and that scared the Quebecois. That said when it came down to the Patriots invading to "free" Quebec, the people decided to stick with the "devil they knew" and either refused to support the force or even outright opposed it. The French had no desire to be part of an assimilationist republic like that and the attitude has stuck ever since.

When it comes to the English part of Canada, well, if they weren't the commercial elite of the British Empire that had a vested interest in the preservation of the King's regime in North America, they were the exiled Loyalists from the rebel colonies to the South. For years the English in Canada had an axe to grind against their southern neighbours for the losses the Patriots had inflicted upon them. That created their resistance to being part of the Republic as well.

Answer 3

You might be right, as I think the Brits were more interested in sticking it up the French than they were in gaining Canada as a territory.

Trouble is, the colonists in Canada saw themselves as independent from the USA, so a more likely outcome would have been Canada remaining a property of the French.

Answer 4

Yes canada would probaly be a part of the us bot quebec would probalystill be a terrioty.