Why not give it to... Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours? He married Queen Victoria's first cousin in 1840.
Perhaps, I'll have to do more research on the guy.
yes, but in those days, canada was not an idea totally beyond a vague geographical area - it's why when the political idea of a nation called Canada came to be, our ancestors where kinda forced to call themselves French-canadians from Big C Canadiens.
The anglo-canadians thought of themselves as *britishes*. Canadians or Canucks is a new calling kinda. Canadiens is an old term who existed in New France texts.
Oh come on, dude. We weren't even remotely forced or pressured. Of course other anglophones considered themselves British; Upper Canada became mostly anglophone because of the influx of United Empire Loyalists, who were (obviously) loyal to Britain. They identified themselves as English/British, because they essentially were. The French/"Canadiens" were fine with that until the War of 1812 which helped unify British North America to a certain extent, helping to create the concept of being "Canadian"; this was essentially honouring, acknowledging and accepting the French part of Canada, but of course Quebec's historical revisionism has decided to turn this into "Anglos forced us to start calling ourselves French-Canadians".
Or, so my grandfather (a born-and-bred "good Quebecois boy" who was proud to be a Canadian and a Quebecer, served in WWII where he learned English, then went on to become a journalist with the CBC, left and came to hate his home province because of what was going on with the "hijacking" of the Quiet Revolution by separatists) would say.
Well, France's anti-monarchist feeling actually survived, and returned in due time, so... As much as a noble would try so, the people may say 'keep yer nobles, Britain,...
Wait, could you perhaps rephrase this? I'm not exactly sure of what you're trying to say here.
When Victoria's father Prince Edward (Yes, the one after whom the island is named...) was Governor there, back before he returned home and married to produce a legitimate heir (just in case none of his elder brothers succeeded in this), he had a long-term Canadienne mistress who was generally accepted in local society as his consort. IOTL that relationship was childless, but...
Hmm, definitely an idea for the backburner...
I think a Canadian monarchy is a really different idea. My concern with this is how the new monarchy would relate to the British Crown. Would having a subservient monarchy concrete the British monarchy as an emperorship, not just of India but as its first identity not its second. Or would Canada's new monarch be King in Canada rather than King of Canada like Prussia was for a while.
I'm not sure what the difference would be. I had intended for the crown to be separate and for Britain to help foster Canada's growth in the Americas, slowly transferring control of British territories and colonies in the Americas to Canada, which Canada would be required to administer and/or expand upon as a way of enlarging the British Empire on the whole, even though the Canadian Crown would be separate in order to contravene the Monroe Doctrine.