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Tracing Canadian Ancestors in the War of 1812

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The United States had designs on conquering Canada during the War of 1812, and assumed it would be an easy task thanks to Loyalist Americans who’d migrated there after the Revolutionary War. Former president Thomas Jefferson is said to have called the conquest “a mere matter of marching.” But Canada’s English and French residents, local View Website VIP Subscription

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