No we did not fight the Brits and Lose. Canada had a very different relationship with the Crown than America did. On the whole there was not a great movement for "independence". Our evoloution as a Nation was very different...two great cultures came together here and to a great extent the task of nation building was one of compromise and accomodation. Many loyalists came to Canada to avoid persecution and to remain loyal to the Crown. The Confederation of Canada in 1867 was the result of compromise rather than of revoloution. The view that some people had in Canada was that America did not want a true revoloution, they simply wanted to exchange one ruling class for another, which is essentially what they did. Politicall this was seen not to be an advantage in British North America. Your questions are good ones, but impossible to answer briefly. I hope this sheds some light and I am sure you will get a lot of replies.