Not getting the "celebrate war of 1812" PR campaign going on by media outlets and guberment... Great, "we" won one stupid pointless war, stopped those dirty Americans from taking over our country. Yippy ki yay?
It's funny: Canadians think of the War of 1812 as a major event, as a time they beat the Americans and all that.
Americans vaguely remember the War of 1812 as a time we sort of beat the British -- if not a full win, we at least got them to stop harassing us -- and we don't think of it as involving Canada at all.
The British don't remember the War of 1812 whatsoever.