Somewhat problematic Not the same as your France exmaple  in that here it was Canada sort of followed by Upper  Lower Canada which where not exactly the same thing followed by Canada So to say that Canada was invaded by the British is technically correct but misleading To avoid that quandary  stay out of the inevitable politicization  difficulty of NPOVing wed run into I couched the wording in terms which avoided sticking a name onto the political entities in question until postConfederation Hence local militias defended their homelands from british invasion  technically they where defending Canada but seeing that it bore little to no geographical resemblance to todays Canada would leave the average reader not already well versed in CanadianNorth American history well confused I thought that Prior to Confederation as the first phrase of the para would have clarified sufficientlyguess not