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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse
I'm not sure I'd call them an offshoot of the "US" seeing as they were part of what was British NA before the US revolution and left in the 1780s as soon as the revolutionary war was ended. So they never really lived in or took part in the newly created republic. And it does show how we have close ties with other parts of British NA.
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My point is simply that at no point in history were the ancestors of today's Americans and Anglo-Canadians really all living under British rule at the same time in North America on either side of the border as if there was no border where there is one today.