Magellan Roadmate 1412 GPS system won't recognize my region(CANADA)?

I don`t understand why this problem had occured. I was using it regularly and all of a sudden, it says `proceed to` and its in the middle of no where. I check what `reegion`it was set to and it said lower 48 states. What I dont get is, why would it freeze all of a sudden, and not recognize CANADA at all. It says that the only region available is the USA. I tried the website and it said it will cost me at least 80$ to update my software. but I think my GPS would only have a 20$ value now, so i dont get whats the point. My QUESTION IS: What can I do, and if i have no choice but to download the map pack then is there a free verrsion?