canada

As many people on this site, I've always got a few ideas for TLs or scenarios bouncing around. Canadian history is by no means by only interest, but it may be my area of greatest expertise. I also find the development of modern day Quebecois politics from some old British guarantees to be...

In this, the PoD is that Tecumseh dies in the battle of Tippecanoe and with him, his confederacy. Because of this when war breaks out in 1812, Isaac Brooks and the Canadian garrison are outnumbered and are defeated by William Hull, leading to a quick occupation of Southern Ontario. The...

IOTL Cape Breton, which would become the center of the Gaelic speaking community in Canada, was a separate colony from Nova Scotia briefly from after the ARW until 1820. If it's not reintegrated into Nova Scotia in 1820, it would become a majority Gaelic speaking colony. The addition of a...

Could Alaska have been purchased by Britain instead of the US, or otherwise integrated into Canada? Were Alaska a Canadian province, how would Canadian and US history be different?

Hey folks, an idea I've toyed with for years, seeing if there is interest in following such a TL or in collaboration. Would cover the entire origins and development of Canadian Rugby/Canadian football, with the major POD being the 1929 season. For those of you who dont know, this is the first...

Why are a quarter of Kitlineq (Victoria Island) , half of Illulliq (Melville Island), Banks Island and some minor islands in the Northwest Territories, instead of being in Nunavut like they should logically be? It makes no sense that the border of Nunavut, after extending to about the western...

As we all know, the War of 1812 was a humiliation for America, and after the White House was burnt to the ground by the British, the Hartford Convention declared independence for New England, which distracted the Americans enough for the British to capture the Great Lakes and the Michigan...

This idea was inspired by David Fletcher's book British Military Transport, 1829-1956, and an interesting point he made regarding the British Army and the DUKW. According to Fletcher, in December 1942 the British Truck Mission in Washington DC gave the Ministry of Supply's requirement for...

In the early 19th century what is now Columbia was disputed between the British Empire and the United States of America, with both claiming the stretch of land between the 54' and 44' parallels north and delimitated to the east by the Great Continental Divide only for the empire finally assert...

The loudspeaker broadcast the final boarding call for the ferry. I had been smoking a cigarette and staring out across the harbour, looking at nothing in particular but taking in the sunshine on a nearly cloudless day. The announcement broke my focus, so I grabbed my backpack off the dock, mate...

Since the writing challenges disappeared, maybe I can make one of my own. Alternate Canada scenarios where we write scenarios of a what if. Some scenarios can be found at the link below. Or, alternatively, we can flesh out a scenario where the 1837-38 rebellions in Canada actually led to an...

Kim Campbell's Upset Victory The exit polls were wrong by a huge scale, from the fact that Kim Campbell had 62 seats and there was to be a Liberal Minority Government with the Bloc being the Opposition, but however, the Progressive Conservatives had 100 seats by the end of the night, the...

Thanks to Robert Durant's relationship with Sam McLaughlin events, through several twists and turns, saw the Oshawa based McLaughlin Motor Car Company becoming a part of GM and renamed General Motors of Canada. The original plants were much nearer the centre of town diagonally opposite from each...

Canada and Mexico are, in many ways, a study in contrasts. The former is infamous for seemingly being a "perpetual developing country", whereas the latter is known as an overall quite successful country despite a rough start (it does have some lingering issues, but no country is perfect). Your...

The War of 1812 is really a small event within world history, being most remembered in the US and (maybe) Canada. As such, it doesn't have too many ramifications for world history, aside for potential Canadian nationalism issues. Yet, an interesting case, in my opinion, to think about, is the...

The United States of America An Alternate Timeline Summary (Introduction/Side Note) Hello. Thank you for visiting my new page on what an alternate history of the United States might look like. I tried to incorporate as much realism as possible while still adding enough "action" to make it...

I've been reading up on more recent histories of Canadian politics and while doing so, I came across three possibilities that could have occured: 1. Joe Clark successfully persuades Preston Manning to run for parliament in 1972 under the PC banner 2. If the Reform Party became, as Preston...

Many Canadians know from their school's history course that France and England had colonial ambitions for the territory that's modern Elnugatia and fought Spain for fishing and land rights to it, ending with Spain victorious (albeit having to give up some its pacific ambitions, leaving it for...

Your challenge is to make this region a french territory instead of Russo/British/American, with a POD after the seven year's war. Bonus if they keep it until ttl's decolonization

What are some great what-ifs of Canadian History pre-1900? I'd like to see what you think about them.