AHC Majority French Canada

Canada WAS majority (almost entirely) French at the time of the American Revolution. Canada and Québec being synonymous terms at the time.

So. OTL.

Though its obvious that the OP meant Canada as in Quebec, Acadia, Nova Scotia, New Foundland, Hudson Bay, etc. Dathi is still right that the French were the majority at this time.
 
The French would have had to made major adjustments to their colonial policy: granting more land to settlers rather than the "seignors" which acted as landlords and offering additional liberties.

Allowing protestants to settle there and subsidizing transport would have gone a long way. If French Canada had possessed another 100,000 people, I question if it would have been conquered in 1759.
 
Hmmm. Others can handle the settlement aspects. As for war and politics:

-1746: d'Anville Expedition plows on despite weather and d'Anville's death and recaptures (peninsular) Acadia.

If d'Anville fails to recapture Acadia...

-1755: Fort Beausejour in New Brunswick is defended successfully, forcing Britain in Acadia to keep from doing the Upheaval. In turn this may delay the 1758 capture of Cape Breton/Siege of Louisbourg. The Acadians, not dispossessed by the Upheaval, revolt if Louisbourg is conquered.
-1759: Battle of the Plains of Abraham is a French defensive victory, especially if less troops are about since some are forced to deal with non-Upheaval Acadians. It also cannot happen period if Cape Breton is not captured. If Acadia is not recaptured by now perhaps a venture from Quebec snags it, or it is taken back by Paris somehow in 1763.

So Canada is saved and Acadia and Cape Breton are recaptured or defended based on your preference. Britain still captures what becomes the Northwest and Southwest Territories of America.

1782: La Perouse claims Rupert's Land then merely devastate it in raids during an American Revolution.

From there France takes Britain's place in what will become Canada.
 
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Without an American Revolution, there are no United Empire Loyalists.
With no UEL there are few English-speaking immigrants to the Eastern Townships of Quebec or what we now call Ontario.
Without a significant influx of English-speaking immigrants, mainland Canada remains French and native-speaking.

If the British Crown were smart, they would have allowed New Englanders to expand into the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, better farmland, well south of French-speaking colonies. Quebec and Southern Ontario would have remained francophone for centuries.
 
The French would have had to made major adjustments to their colonial policy: granting more land to settlers rather than the "seignors" which acted as landlords and offering additional liberties.

Allowing protestants to settle there and subsidizing transport would have gone a long way. If French Canada had possessed another 100,000 people, I question if it would have been conquered in 1759.

Not only that, but the French government in general didn't care much to promote emigration to New France. Some within the government (including Colbert) even argued against it, claiming that France was underpopulated. The government made some effort to recruit colonists in 1663 (when it became a royal colony) but this largely ended in 1672 with the outbreak of the Dutch War.

The effects of that one decade of recruitment can be seen in the spike in New France's population from 1666 to 1676, when it grew from 3,215 to 8,415 - a 162% increase. But over the next decade growth slowed to 47%, to 12,373, as the growth was now fueled almost entirely by natural increase. Growth thereafter would be relatively modest.

If the Dutch War could have been delayed or avoided, or Louis XIV's government simply taken more interest in recruiting colonists from the 1670s onward, the population could have quite a bit larger by the mid-18th century.
 
Hmmm. Others can handle the settlement aspects. As for war and politics:
-1755: Fort Beausejour in New Brunswick is defended successfully, forcing Britain in Acadia to keep from doing the Upheaval. In turn this may delay the 1758 capture of Cape Breton/Siege of Louisbourg. The Acadians, not dispossessed by the Upheaval, revolt if Louisbourg is conquered.
-1759: Battle of the Plains of Abraham is a French defensive victory, especially if less troops are about since some are forced to deal with non-Upheaval Acadians. It also cannot happen period if Cape Breton is not captured. If Acadia is not recaptured by now perhaps a venture from Quebec snags it, or it is taken back by Paris somehow in 1763.

Another possibility: following the French victory in the battle of Sainte-Foy in 1760, the French fleet arrives (having avoided battle at Quiberon the previous year) and allows them to recapture Quebec.
 
Without an American Revolution, there are no United Empire Loyalists.
With no UEL there are few English-speaking immigrants to the Eastern Townships of Quebec or what we now call Ontario.
Without a significant influx of English-speaking immigrants, mainland Canada remains French and native-speaking.

If the British Crown were smart, they would have allowed New Englanders to expand into the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, better farmland, well south of French-speaking colonies. Quebec and Southern Ontario would have remained francophone for centuries.

As long as there is free land in upper Quebec, and as long as there is a large population of Anglos spreading West quickly, that free land will be settled by Anglos.
 
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