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Someone who knows about American history pre-1800 please explain to me one thing.
How come "Canada" existed as such a distinct separate entity even back then?
The U.S was still a collection of colonies. Vast areas across the continent were simply unclaimed or not looked after. Land often changed ownership between the brits, the french and spanish yet Canadian lands seem to have somehow stayed steady in their own bubble away from all the hassle in the U.S.
When the colonies were planning their independence in the condeferation congress etc. representatives of areas that now form Canada weren't present. I've never even heard them being mentioned in the context of the U.S. independence as possible members.
What separated "canadian colonies" and "american colonies" in an era when they were all just a bunch colonies on a new continent? Is it just a distinction we've made later after we learned how the U.S fight for independence turned out? Was Canada really considered a separate entity at the time and why so when they're all connected to the U.S by land?
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Take a moment to read the history of how the colonies formed.
Canada was formed from land that was first colonized by the French and then taken by the English following the conclusion of the Seven Years War, which was after the Thirteen Colonies formed, they had a different history and to the Americans the Canadians were probably still considered strange French colonials or so on.
Also an interesting point is that even today Newfoundland is considered different from other Canadian provinces, in part because Newfoundland was formally founded by the English and thus has a different history than the rest of Canada which experienced more established French rule.
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