AHC: Canadian Alaska and Hawaii

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to somehow have Alaska and Hawaii become Canadian provinces with PoD after 1815.

Bonus points if you avoid a war between the US and Britain...
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to somehow have Alaska and Hawaii become Canadian provinces with PoD after 1815.

Bonus points if you avoid a war between the US and Britain...
Neither is very difficult, Hawaii simply chooses to join the British empire as a protectorate of some sort and later joins Canada for various associated benefits, Alaska, the Americans refuse to buy it, so the Russians sell it to the Brits.
 
Have the British seize Alaska during the Crimean War (perhaps earlier discovery of gold). The possession of that territory leads to greater interest in the trans-Pacific trade, resulting in annexation of Hawaii - which historically had much closer ties to Britain anyway.
 
Alaska very easy.

Hawaii, not sure. British Hawaii could easily happen, but I'd just think Hawaii becomes independent during the wave of African/Asian decolonization in such a scenario, and at most has a similar relation to Canada like New Zealand to Australia (though greater size difference). Maybe if Britain joins it to Canada and/or settles Canadians there in an effort to deter the United States from eying the place?
 
Alaska very easy.

Hawaii, not sure. British Hawaii could easily happen, but I'd just think Hawaii becomes independent during the wave of African/Asian decolonization in such a scenario, and at most has a similar relation to Canada like New Zealand to Australia (though greater size difference). Maybe if Britain joins it to Canada and/or settles Canadians there in an effort to deter the United States from eying the place?
Keep in mind the former British Caribbean possession once sought to join Canada and the only reason it didn't happen was because Canada said no, Canadian Hawaii wouldn't have been any stranger than that.
 
Alaska is easy, very easy. All it requires is the British to win at Petropavlovsk in the Crimean War.

Hawaii is slightly harder. It's easy enough for Britain to get, but getting Canada there is more difficult. Canada doesn't have much of a Pacific presence in the nineteenth century, or for most of the twentieth. The HBC was active there, but their tenure there ended because the HBC as an organization couldn't adapt to a purely consumer market and the East India Company cut their profits from the China trade.

Maybe if Simpson isn't in charge of the HBC, the Canadians have a more Pacific oriented drive with the addition of Alaska (this likely requires Puget Sound as well) and Britain pushes Canada to take Hawaii it could happen. But even then I suspect its either kept by Britain or rolled out as it's own independent state.
 

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Neither is very difficult, Hawaii simply chooses to join the British empire as a protectorate of some sort and later joins Canada for various associated benefits, Alaska, the Americans refuse to buy it, so the Russians sell it to the Brits.
Selling from Russia to British is not going to work. Russians did sell Alaska to USA in 1867 to avoid the perceived inevitable capture of the indefensible territory by British (that time an arch-enemy of Russians). Other, more aggressive way may work though. For this, may be best way is to have some incident, tension and partial trade embargo between USA and Russia in early 19th century. In this case, Russian OTL trade posts in Hawaii will develop in colony (because US goods supply will be less available), and the Russian Hawaii will be lost to British together with Russian Alaska at some point, during Crimean war or few decades later.
 
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