Why does the US fail to take over Canada?

The US did not have many troops, and 200 of them refused to go beyond american terriotory,the British found out about these plans to take over canada by seizing a schooner with his baggage and papers on it. The left the border of New york without ever entering Canada because they had many different accidents, including one where the fired at their own men in the dark.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.