"Celebrating 200th anniversary of the defeat of the British in the war of 1812 (the battle was fought in 1814)"

Canada is still Canada. We didn't defeat the British. We retracted from the war in the treaty of Ghent.
And they did burn the President's Residence... which was later White Washed to hide the burn marks, and from then on was called the White House....

Its a fun week end any way you look at it.