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The numbers weren’t particularly large because of institutional racism, but Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indo-Canadians all served in the Canadian Army during the First World War. Maybe their service could’ve been leveraged to open Canada up to larger numbers of Asian immigrants after the war.

You’d also have to go outside the United States as the purchase included territory that’s now part of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Similarly, The Queen’s Rangers which was raised in New York and New England currently exists as The Queen’s York Rangers (1st American Regiment) in the Canadian Army.

Do what? Tell Britain to get bent? What’re they going to do about it? It’s what Canada told Britain during the Chanak Crisis which was just a few years after WW1. Hell, it’s what Canada told Britain at the start of WW1. Britain: We’re going to break up the Canadian battalions and use them...

A lot of the responses seem to depend on the belief that pre-1980s Canada was completely incapable of thinking or acting for itself. Britain goes fascist? Guess we have to be fascist now, too. France goes communist? So does Quebec despite the fact that Quebecers rioted twice against...

I remember reading somewhere that the public announcement of the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in February 1917 was delayed slightly because someone realized it would piss off Denmark and the way the armies were deployed would mean that if the Danes entered the war they’d be able...

There would have been a Commonwealth Corps. One British, one Canadian and one Australian division and two NZ brigades plus air and naval forces. No Indians, MacArthur forbade any Indian units to avoid "linguistic" complications.

Turkey's problem isn't that they have Leopard 2s. It's that they have 2A4s and not A5s, A6s or A7s combined with the fact that they're incompetent. Canadian Leo 2s in Afghanistan took multiple hits from RPGs, IEDs, anti-tank mines, etc. Not a single tank or crewmember was lost.

Something to consider before speculating about how big the RCN would be ITTL is how many of these territories would even still be Canadian by the 1980s? Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and the Bahamas (which account for the vast majority of the population in the territories that would be...

It wouldn’t just be about re-fueling. By the mid 30s, Britain is once again giving Germany serious side eye and is starting to plan for another war. A war in which it will be very much in need of Canada’s assistance. Assistance Canada may not be inclined to give if Britain hung it out to dry...

1929 is pre-Statute of Westminster. So every bit of Canadian territory still ultimately belongs to the UK. Invading a Canadian Falklands in 1929 would be much more likely to get a response from the RN than in the 1980s.

Yes, that would be the closest to impeachment. But it’s entirely possible to lose a no confidence vote and still come out ahead. Look at Harper in 2011.

Macdonald wasn’t impeached, he resigned. There’s no such thing as impeachment of a prime minister in Canada.

While Quebec separatists love to complain that they're the victims of colonization, the reality is that they are colonizers every bit as much as the English and the real colonized people of Quebec (the indigenous peoples) generally have to time for Quebec separatism. Also, if we're talking...

The problem with getting Quebecers to co-operate with Americans is that if there was one people they disliked more than a limey, it was a yankee.