>>4177053"Despite the official stance (Neutral), the majority of Canadian and Maritime newspapers sympathized with the South, not because they supported slavery, but because they saw the Confederacy as a small power defying a distant, larger one that was not protecting its interests. Many Canadians and Maritimers opposed Lincoln because he said the war was not about freeing slaves but was about reuniting his country or, as he phrased it, preserving the union."
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/american-civil-war/Yeah, you ain't the only one.
