{"id":473,"date":"2012-10-31T20:48:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/?page_id=473"},"modified":"2012-11-15T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T16:28:11","slug":"getting-into-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/explore-history\/the-canadian-war\/getting-into-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting into War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadians had no grievance against the United States that was worth risking war. Upper Canada welcomed American immigrants. Many families had relatives on both sides of the border. Pioneer societies in Upper Canada and western New York were very similar and linked by close social and economic ties. War with the United States would threaten these connections and expose emerging communities to invasion and destruction.<\/p>\n

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\n\"Geography<\/a>

Geography and War<\/p>

Upper and Lower Canada, 1812-15<\/strong><\/p>

CWM<\/pre><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\"Bush<\/a>
War Fears<\/p>
Bush Farm near Chatham, 1838<\/em><\/strong><\/p>
Watercolour by Philip Bainbrigge, 1838\r\nLibrary and Archives Canada, 1983-047-21<\/pre><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\"View<\/a>
A Mohawk Community<\/p>
View of a Mohawk Indian Village<\/em><\/strong><\/p>
Watercolour by Sempronious Stretton, 1805\r\nLibrary and Archives Canada, 1990-113-1<\/pre><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Canadians had no grievance against the United States that was worth risking war. Upper Canada welcomed American immigrants. Many families had relatives on both sides of the border. Pioneer societies in Upper Canada and western New York were very similar and linked by close social and economic ties. War with the United States would threaten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":457,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/473\/revisions\/2155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warmuseum.ca\/war-of-1812\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}