Incidentally, it is very interesting that both British and American discussions of this war tend to focus on actions at sea, while Canadians focus on the land campaigns. In fact, like the American War of Independence, the War of 1812 had a variety of objectives and comprised several major campaigns on land as well as maritime strategies focussed on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie as well as on the high seas.

I believe this variance of focus arises from differences in interest: Canadians had the most skin in the game in the land campaigns in the Niagara Peninsula and along the St Lawrence and Richelieu rivers, so that is what we tend to care about and write about. Incidentally, it is also where the Americans were comprehensively whipped.

The Canadian historiography of the War of 1812 usually begins with the Quebec Act, which identified the vast tract between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes as British territory reserved for use by the resident First Nations, and specifically separated from the thirteen (later rebellious) colonies. That would support Teribus' point of view.