In Canada, we learned about the revolution in the context of how it impacted Britain, the American colonists and the rest of British North America aka Canada, or "the Canadas" (modern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime provinces). The Seven Years War gets more focus, as it was the root of Canada's English-French identity. But the American Revolution also had a profound effect on Canada's future evolution and identity.

Plenty of emphasis on the 1774 Quebec Act and how its fair treatment of French Canadians were part of the "Intolerable Acts" that triggered the revolt. In school, only the revolution's basics were covered with a focus on Patriot attempts to recruit Canadian colonies, Arnold's American invasion of Quebec, Patriot sympathies in Nova Scotia and the Revolution's aftermath.

Up to 80,000 Loyalists/Tories left America after the war, with half of them migrating to Canada. This is considered a monumental event in Canada's evolution. 40,000 Loyalists may not seem much in America, which had about 2.5M people then ... but in less populated Canada, this wave of English Protestant migration threatened to and, in time, did change the identity of a colony that had once been majority French and Catholic.

At the time of the conquest of Quebec, there were only 70-80,000 French colonists, so the post-war influx of Loyalists is seen as pivotal in English Canada's identity. Even more "late Loyalists" moved to Canada in the 1790s for cheap land, prompting Britain to divide Quebec into two colonies: "English" Upper Canada and "French" Lower Canada.

The legacy of the revolution continued during the War of 1812 as many settlers in Canada were either these same Loyalists who had lost everything after Yorktown, or their relatives and offspring.