In the Canadian national mythology, the story of the War of 1812 is, as noted Canadian historian and author Pierre Berton once wrote, the story of "the war that Canada won, or to put it more precisely, did not lose ," and any attempt to understand the subtle but important differences between the United States and Canada, two countries with much in common, must deal with the Canadian conceptions of the War of 1812. 18…
SOURCE: HowlRound at 04:45PM on May 28, 2013