AHC: Canada goes revolutionary but the south doesn't.

It's all in the title. I have some ideas for how this would play out, but I don't have a clue what the PoD would be. If anyone could help, please tell me!
 

Cosmedian

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Maybe leave the French in charge longer? Or make them better rulers, so that Canadians really feel French; then when they rebel against the British, the 13 Colonies feel like it's their 'duty' to help the motherland.

IIRC the colonists didn't hate Britain until there was a lack of threats towards them besides Britain. (The French, the Indians, etc).

Then have the UK adopt a more 'overseas England' policy, instead of a colonies policy, more like what they did with Newfoundland.

Finally, when BNA goes independent, it is a commonwealth realm, while Canada (a free realm with a Bourbon king?) celebrates their day of freedom.
 
You mean like Glen's "Dominion of Southern America" TL? Basically, Canada (OTL Quebec) and Nova Scotia (including OTL New Brunswick) rebel along with the Northern colonies, Maryland, and Virginia, but the Carolinas and Georgia remain British.
 
You mean like Glen's "Dominion of Southern America" TL? Basically, Canada (OTL Quebec) and Nova Scotia (including OTL New Brunswick) rebel along with the Northern colonies, Maryland, and Virginia, but the Carolinas and Georgia remain British.

The thread title probably implies an independent Canadian state rather than annexation into the US.
 
If your scenario is, circa 1775, the British government mollifies British colonial discontent by withdrawing the Quebec Act (and other intolerable Acts), there may be something to a Canadian rebellion.

But Great Britain (assuming at peace with France), allied with a dozen more highly populated British colonies to the south, and controlling the sea lanes, could fairly simply put down any French Canadian rebellion at this time.

There were only a couple of hundred thousand Frenchmen in America at the time versus 10 million Brits and 3 million British colonists.

Perhaps if the Canadians rebelled in 1800 during the French Revolutionary Wars and got French assistance...maybe but I think it a stretch.
 
The thread title probably implies an independent Canadian state rather than annexation into the US.

I read it as what became Canada in OTL joining the northern Colonies in rebellion and forming a single country (with or without Quebec itself), while the southern Colonies remain loyal to the UK.

Personally, I think that since the OTL northern US is closer culturally to OTL Canada than it is to the OTL southern US, that the US in this TL would be more culturally homogeneous than in the OTL USA. Quebec and the other French-speaking regions speak a different language, of course.

And the loyalist southern states can remain a third-world, culturally backwards hellhole to their governing party's content.
 
I read it as what became Canada in OTL joining the northern Colonies in rebellion and forming a single country (with or without Quebec itself), while the southern Colonies remain loyal to the UK.

Personally, I think that since the OTL northern US is closer culturally to OTL Canada than it is to the OTL southern US, that the US in this TL would be more culturally homogeneous than in the OTL USA. Quebec and the other French-speaking regions speak a different language, of course.

And the loyalist southern states can remain a third-world, culturally backwards hellhole to their governing party's content.

That's what I thought also but I'm from CT and very pro New England/Canada so I could be bias lol.
 
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