Recent content by AlbertaGamer

I still wish to see what some scenarios might be imagined if Canada hadn't survived 200 years ago. "Fearless Leader" seems to think the only important thing is to say "We didn't want Canada anyway." Sour grapes. The fact that the US wanted to absorb Canada permanently was never the important...

It does prove it, as does the US treatment of all conquests in the 1800's. i.e. - keeping them permanently. I know it's hard to admit, but the US lost, and Canada is an independent nation as a result.

Re-writing history 200 years after the fact? To quote Thomas Jefferson: "The conquest of Canada will be a mere matter of marching." The US would never have given Canada back. Just like the former northern half of Mexico.

What would have happened if Germany was never pushed off of Vimy Ridge?

WI Hitler didn't make that vengeful decision to switch from attacking airfields to attacking cities?

If 1% more voted for separation, it would have been a done deal. Then what?

WI the US won the War of 1812 and annexes Canada? How would this affect world history? What would the territory that would have become Canada look like today?

A single Japanese pilot at Midway spotting the US ships before the American pilot spotted the Japanese ships could have tipped the whole Pacific War the other way. It was that close. Thank heavens it turned out the way it did.

The Reconquista of Spain didn't succeed, leaving Spain in Muslim hands and eventually all of Europe, by say 1300 AD. Then what happens?

How would world settlement have played out if the first major civilization was in Australia instead of the eastern Mediterranean?

Germany was in over its head already and would have desperately fought to the bitter end under another of Hitler's zealots. The assassins would have been caught and executed regardless. History on the grand scale wouldn't have changed much. IMHO

Joe Clark didn't try the budget of 1979 that was defeated and hence brought the Trudeau Liberals back into power, resulting in the NEP among other things. What would have happened to Canada?

WI Germany won in the West and Japan won in the Pacific? They would be the two superpowers in the world. Would they eventually go to war? You know what Hitler thought of non-"Aryans". Who would win?

If the first Revolution had failed, another and another would have occurred until one succeeded. Good thing it worked the first try so North America got a lot more peace than Europe did.

Sir Isaac Brock, the hero of the War of 1812 and a distant ancestor of the greatest athlete of the 20th Century (Wayne Gretzky) took a major gamble and managed to bluff the jittery Americans holding Detroit into surrendering early in the war. What would have happened if he didn't do that?