The US founding fathers and Canada
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From the Declaration of Independence:
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
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For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
Note that both these two articles are directly, and bluntly, aimed at the long established intent of the English colonies to impose English Common Law on les Habitants of Quebec. These intentions were never lost on les Habitants, who consequently had the strongest desire to resist incorporation into the United States.
So while the concept of Manifest Destiny would not be enunciated until 1845, the purchase of the Louisiana Territory by Jefferson made clear the unspoken intent. The United States would always have been glad to incorporate any and all of the territory of Canada, including those regions governed by the Hudson's Bay Company as Rupert's Land, but the inhabitants of those territories never shared the same enthusiasm.
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