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No chance. Prior to national railroad projects that took decades, "the west", all of which other than British Columbia, was a fiefdom of a fur trading company that Canada didn't even own let alone have infrastructure to build a capital and lines of communication in. All provinces were promised...

But what? He is taking the narrative as written, then introducing "what if the accepted historical locals were there too"? I'm not seeing any disrespectful behaviour here, nor has there been either a prohibition on religion-related PoDs or an absence of them. As Al-numbers shows, there are...

Renewed war effort with whom, over what? Edward III is King of France, and will be King of England, unless he dies before his dad. Granted, this isn't the centralized France of Louis XIV, but he's overlord. This is the time for diplomacy and dynastic manuevering.

Sleepy and misread this originally. I suppose keepling SLOCs open to Finland and supporting enclaves in the Baltics (and pulling Dunkirks?) could be a boon in the next war. Might France be joining in, with French subs going for German convoys in the Atlantic? Or perhaps the next war will be as...

So Russia will be cranking out sturmoviks/stukas to support their concentrated 38(t)s in knocking out the dispersed German Char B1's. Meanwhile, German strategic bombers will fail to decisively break the enemy. Russia wins the doctrine contest, Germany learns from the school of hard knocks, and...

To turn that around, "make no mistake", the German example you gave was ethnic cleansing. The low estimate was half a million Germans killed postwar as part of those population transfers. Territorial seizures and minorities are always problematic.

Earlier, bloodier conflict with Spain, possibly involving a significant number of Confederate veterans, resulting in a populous more jingo and more willing to spend money on veterans?

How many Czechs were in Legions ITTL? Without as much western support, the diaspra, and fewer A-H PoWs, I imagine they're smaller. Was there just the one plucky PoV unit? Or are we going to see a trainwreck of repatriated "traitors" at the end of the war? To be executed by an alliance that...

I'd think that hydrogen fuel cells would be more plausible than a battery electric vehicle in that time period. You're unlikely to get batteries with sufficient density for a commuter vehicle, but a rather expensive vehicle with an electric motor powered by fuel cells would be possible. That...

Irwin Allen cheese or Sliders seasons 1/2 cheese? I could see a Desilu production, with Star Trek levels of seriousness, exploring worlds via stargates. Take Roddenberry out of the picture, inspire somebody to put together a feasible pilot, and you've got a show. It might not age well, but it...

The wheel The axle The plow Form follows function. Science is our understanding of nature, and is the framework through which technology is developed. Given the same nature, yes, science is predictable. Technology may not follow the same path as we stumble through our understanding...

An effective signals officer in an influential role in the coup. Have secure communications in place at the start, holding on to more of the navy. Implement a destruction plan where a headquarters is overrun, and switch codes to keep communications secure. Move faster than the republicans...

I'm not suggesting that a short decisive campaign would be a direct result of Sanjurjo. I am suggesting that a shorter, less destructive war with different postwar personalities is possible. The reliance on imports would still be there, but the country could be in a different set of...

Suppose that Sanjurjo returning on a larger aircraft leads to his survival and an earlier decisive win by the Nationalists. Spain comes out of that war in better shape, but with the same basic economic dependencies. Given opportunistic war entry against the French (jumping in after French...

As I recall, the de facto "People's Republic" was recognized as the true legitimate government of China, as opposed to the "Republic of China" who had effectively ceased to be so decades earlier. China was never replaced on the security council. To the best of my knowledge, there is no direct...

Alternate great wars and revolutions through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth? Nativist USA less inviting to immigrants? Get more people to leave Europe and get a larger fraction to come to Canada.

Corsica?..

The Canadian flag there is a major anachronism. Its not impossible for a maple leaf flag to evolve fifty years earlier than OTL in a less-independent-than-OTL Canada (which it would be, given the military commitment by Britain), but its pretty unlikely. I'd expect some sort of union...

A butterfly supports the French intervention, their puppet is more successful. US becomes more interventionist to defend their sphere. Mexico assumes significant autonomy, particularly with the Prussia-France showdown perhaps, and a French guarantee isn't entirely obvious. US adventures...

Alright, how about a PoD which sees Canada end up a part of the US in the ARW? Perhaps Montcalm doesn't come west, there's a greater use of native auxillaries and guerrilla tactics in the 1760-1763 equivalent, and the war ends with greater resentment of the British. The British hold onto a...