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  1. 1907 The Dominion of New Zealand appoints a woman as High Commissioner in London.

    Yes. Even today there are high commissioners. So, for example, Canada has a HC in London, New Delhi and Wellington while having an ambassador in Washington, Beijing and Berlin.

  2. 1907 The Dominion of New Zealand appoints a woman as High Commissioner in London.

    High commissioner is the title Commonwealth countries use with each other instead of ambassador. Canada was first with a HC in London in the 1880s.

  3. What if the Soviets took Denmark in World War II?

    1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was sent to capture the town of Wismar, which was in the zone assigned to the Soviets as well as close to the Danish border specifically to keep the Soviets from being able to potentially advance into Denmark. Unsurprisingly, the soviets weren’t happy to find...

  4. WI: The Titanic doesn't hit the iceberg

    The sinking of RMS Empress of Ireland in May 1914 would probably be a lot better known.

  5. What if Canada did not join the British War efforts in WW2?

    If Canada doesn’t declare war then its auto industry is going to keep manufacturing cars, not military vehicles.

  6. Keep Canada a significant military power following WW2

    Not once during the Cold War did Canada’s UN contributions ever even come close to equalling its NATO contributions. At peak, Canada had maybe about 3,000 troops on UN duty. NATO deployments in Europe were 4-5 times that number.

  7. More members of "The 27 Club"?

    David Gilmour was 27 during the recording of The Dark Side of the Moon. Him dying at 27 completely alters Pink Floyd’s future output and maybe even they never become the giant success that they did. Edit: I’m wrong. He turned 27 just after the album was released. Still, would be interesting to...

  8. WI Nuclear war in 2014

    Pretty much. I read an interview with a Swedish defence studies professor a couple years ago and he was asked why Russian warplanes and warships are trolling Sweden and Finland when they’re neutral and not members of NATO. His response was basically “because in the event of a war between Russia...

  9. AHC: Royal Canadian and Royal Australian Marines?

    This bit actually happened. The Royal Newfoundland Regiment spent much of the war serving as marines on the Great Lakes.

  10. Sikh extremists rather than Islamists as the international face of terrorism

    The people responsible for the Air India bombing were all Canadian residents at the time and several had Canadian citizenship. So clearly some Sikhs outside India do care.

  11. What is Canada's Population Carrying Capacity? And How Could Canada Have Maximized its Population

    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.

  12. Question: How many people lives in the Louisiana Purchase today?

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

  13. The names of American regiments the British Army raised if the 13 Colonies never successfully separated from Great Britain?

    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.

  14. What is the most feasible way to get an American invasion and annexation of Canada in the 20th century?

    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...

  15. What is the most feasible way to get an American invasion and annexation of Canada in the 20th century?

    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...

  16. Can the Allies win WW1 before Russia collapses ?

    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...

  17. WI: Operation Downfall happens?

    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.

  18. Best late cold war era NATO tank?

    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.

  19. Argentine-Canadian War over the Falklands

    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...

  20. Argentine-Canadian War over the Falklands

    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...
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