I disagree. Without Alaska being America's "last frontier", there would be a lot less people moving up there. Alaska would be a backwater (or even more of a backwater depending on how you look at it) compared to OTL.Canada would have almost a million extra people, be a little richer by roughly the GDP of Alaska...
I disagree. Without Alaska being America's "last frontier", there would be a lot less people moving up there. Alaska would be a backwater (or even more of a backwater depending on how you look at it) compared to OTL.
In reality, while it would be nice, Canada would not be any more powerful from incorporating Alaska, even as a territory (which is what it would remain as). The only thing would be oil, but even then there are other places in Canada that are not as remote in terms of oil production, and mining operations would be similar to next-door Yukon. Even with a direct border with Russia that would not change much (the US military does not have a massive buildup IOTL in Alaska as a result of Russia). So Alaska would have as much impact as Yukon, which is to say not much.
For an even sexier world map, Canada could annex the entire United States.Its biggest contribution would be making the world map sexier