How are we treated as Americans in Canada?

In the comments the question was asked about how the Canadians treat us as Americans in their country. I struggled for a long time with this because most of the Canadians we interact with are either involved with the project (in which case we've been working together for so long that the question isn't meaningful), work at the range, or are in the service industry either at the hotel or in the restaurants.

The folks who work at the range treat us like co-workers and maybe a little better. Nothing any more unusual than say working at a new area at Eglin. They really make us feel like one of the guys.

The service industry folks mostly treat us like customers, although I think since we are so long term they are a little friendlier than you might expect. It probably doesn't hurt that we tip fairly well.

The people near us in the restaurants and bars treat us like other patrons in the bars, no one has gotten into any political or national debates or even teasing. Most of the other patrons in those places work in the oil industry and seem to be mostly loners. No one is concerned that we aren't interested in Hockey or Curling. For the most part they don't seem to be either.

So this morning I asked the girls who were running the 7-11 where we stop for gas and coffee every morning what they thought of having a bunch of Americans coming in their place every morning, what did they think of Americans in general. They said they didn't think much about us at all and that we were just normal people to them, except when we wanted a hunting or fishing license, then they said in that case we would be aliens. Then one of them asked me if I had any state quarters because she was missing one of the 2006 states from her collection.

Since it is tempting to think of Canadians as cheerful Americans with that funny U.P. accent, I think they may think of us the same way. All Canadians have been to Florida.