Their problem is they want to be totally different from the WASPs in America. States like Virginia, Massachusetts and others of the original 13 have colonial and English shit all over the place. Virginia in particular really leans into that old English esthetic that includes Garden clubs, fancy lawns, statues of dead nobles and wat not.
Every time I am in Ontario it's weird. The province acts aggressively too make the environment as eye rapingly boring as possible. It honestly looks alot like a bog standard midwestern American state, with shitty box stores, uniform box buildings and so on. The only parts of Ontario with any charm I found were the French parts. The French Ontarians seem to want to make their towns and villages as aggressively European and Pretty as possible. Maybe as a fuck you to the Anglos, but its a deserved one.