AH Three-Way Wank Challenge: N. America

The best way to do this is to completely wreck Europe, Russia, China, and Japan. The best (or worst, depending on your PoV) way to do this is in WWII. Maybe have the Nazis defeat the Soviets, then have the Western Allies defeat the Nazis. This would make Canada one of the leading world powers by default. Then, just have the US invest more Mexico and help establish a stable government there (they need a market for US goods now that Europe is a smoking ruin).

First World Mexico+Unchallenged Superpower US+Great Power Canada=Three-Way North Ameriwank.
 
While I can see mexico expand southward fairly easily, I think Canada and the US would need to have different reason to expand.

With Canada, have it be originaly a military union of all the british western hemisphere colonies due to fear of the US taking advantage of the french revolution/napoleonic wars to expand. After the Defeat of Denmark-Norway, the british gain Groenland which is added to Canada and later following gaining Dominion status, it buys Alaska to ensure control of the northern land from coast to coast. The difference in climate, ethnicity and economy leads to a strong policy of provincial autonomy.

The USA, seeing it's northern and southern neighbours expand, desire an empire of its own and expand west. It find itself coming in conflicts a number of time with the british over the border and fearing a war with the british monarch, looks elsewhere for new land, sending expeditions to asia and africa for goods and slaves. The term "colonies" is never used officially but instead "overseas territories". As many of these overseas territories have a slave holding economy, when they begin to agitate for statehood, it leads to a backlash and conflict. To try and mend fences with newly freed slave, the federal government adopt a policy of "melting pot" where local cultural differences are largely discouraged in the name of equality.
 
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A Canada that is a mega Quebec isn't Canada; it's Quebec.

A rather curious comment, given the origins of the term "Canada."

For many years, a "Canadian" (Canadien) was understood to be a francophone; anglophones were just called "British" or similar terms. (Hence the name of the Montreal hockey franchise, le Club de Hockey Canadien, which was founded specifically as a francophone club, as anglophones played for the Montreal Maroons.)
 
A rather curious comment, given the origins of the term "Canada."

For many years, a "Canadian" (Canadien) was understood to be a francophone; anglophones were just called "British" or similar terms. (Hence the name of the Montreal hockey franchise, le Club de Hockey Canadien, which was founded specifically as a francophone club, as anglophones played for the Montreal Maroons.)

It's not a curious comment at all. I was merely stating that this would presuppose a Canada very different from that which developed in our timeline. A Francophone Canada is a very different Canada even if it remains truer to the initial use of the term. Your protest to my comment here would be like someone saying that a Duchy Prussia which was in vassalage to Poland and never united with Brandenburg wouldn't be vastly different from the Prussia of our timeline; the use of the term may stay closer to its original meaning, but the polity and culture described are nonetheless very divergent from its counterpart in our timeline.
 

iddt3

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A Canada that is a mega Quebec isn't Canada; it's Quebec.

Nah, Quebec was Canada before it was Quebec, all you're doing is butterflying away the growth of a stronger Anglo-Canadian identity.
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And yes it would be a different Canada, but all the countries are different here. Besides I kind of like the idea of the three dominant languages in the world being American English, Quebecois French and Mexican Spanish. Take that Imperial European Powers! It really makes each power more distinctive, which IMO also wanks them; a larger Canada that's still America Jr is less "wanked" then a Francophone Canada that stands on it's own cultural feet. As a further wank, trilingualism is extremely common throughout North America; Take that American linguistic exceptionalism!
 
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iddt3

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The best way to do this is to completely wreck Europe, Russia, China, and Japan. The best (or worst, depending on your PoV) way to do this is in WWII. Maybe have the Nazis defeat the Soviets, then have the Western Allies defeat the Nazis. This would make Canada one of the leading world powers by default. Then, just have the US invest more Mexico and help establish a stable government there (they need a market for US goods now that Europe is a smoking ruin).

First World Mexico+Unchallenged Superpower US+Great Power Canada=Three-Way North Ameriwank.
This is before 1900, so the PoD should be then. Besides, a Mexico and Canada that stood up on their own as opposed to being propped up by America are both more wanked.
 
Here's another idea for having 3 distinct countries to build on:

- British conquer canada
- british north american uprising. french-dutch-spanish do not intervene, uprising fail.
- british immigration from southern colonies and Great-Britain stay at a trickle allowing younger canadiens to move easily westward into newly opened lands of the Pays-d'en-Haut.
- Napoleonic wars: Great Britain place great demands on it's north-american colonies in terms of both men and resources to help with the war effort without any concessions being given in return. Emperor Napoleon force spain to give aid via New spain to the smouldering insurgency and promised further assistance. These demands placed on the people of New Spain exacerbate the already tense internal situation and some generals use the mobilisation as a cover to stage a coup against loyalists to declare independence.
- Following nearly a decade of intermittent warfare, Spain recognise the independence of Mexico and Great Britain recognise the independence of 2 blocks of colonies, the predominantly francophone Canada and the predominantly anglophone United States of America.
 
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