AHC: Most drastic changes to internal Canadian borders

#1. You accrue points for the degree to which the borders between administrative subunits (provinces, territories, other possible types of subunit like a "national capital district" for instance) of the Canadian state are, in ATL 2015, different from those same borders in OTL 2015.

#2. The external borders of the Canadian state cannot be significantly different from OTL 2015 in ATL 2015. (Feel free to add the Turks & Caicos if you want, but it'd probably be ASB and you'd lose points, lol.)

#3. No territory of the ATL Canadian state in 2015 can enjoy full and uncontested sovereignty from Ottawa (or whatever city may happen to be the capital in 2015). Situations like OTL Kosovo, Western Sahara, or Palestine might be tolerated, especially insofar as they perhaps cause new borderings and territorializations.

This challenge was brought to you by this morning's strange desire to live somewhere less territorially logical and more like the India/Bangladesh borders, the Fergana valley, or the European Union.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Some ideas, though I'm ignorant of some aspects of Canada so do forgive:

*Capital district of Ottawa.
*A majority First Nation Province.
*The territories become Provinces.
*Vancouver Island is a separate Province like Prince Edward Island in the east.
*A Province consisting of Southwest Ontario, the Georgian Triangle and Golden Horseshoe (Or all those areas become their own province) as a result of Gerrymandering.
 
WI you divide the country along linguistic lines?

English-speakers along the north shore of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence would join New Foundland and Labrador. Since they sound like Newfies, most Cape Breton Islanders would also join Newfyland.

A new Acadian Province would include all the Acadian-speaking people living along the coasts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI.
Québécois-speakers in Northern NB would join Quebec.

The English-speaking Eastern Townships (of Quebec) would join Ontario, while a few of the French-speaking counties of Eastern Ontario would join Quebec.

The Arctic would be divided along linguistic/tribal lines.

Chinese-speaking Richmond, B.C. would become a far-flung province of Taiwan, while Punjabi-speaking Surrey would become the new Sikh homeland, distinct from India or Pakistani.
 
Saskatchewan & Alberta split into four (Athabaska, SK, AB, Assiniboia)

Manitoba divided into the Selkirk Grant & *North Manitoba.

Ontario divided into OTL Lower Canada, North Ontario, & Northwest Ontario

Quebec divided into Upper Candada, North Quebec, & Ungava

Newfoundland & Labrador separate (maybe)

BC divided in half.

If you want provinces nearer in size to U.S. states, you can multiply by 4 or 5...:eek:
 
Your only options are really the prairie provinces. You can't unilaterally split a province in half, you'd face a firestorm politically over it. Maybe you can rewrite the laws and give more autonomy to the territories earlier and stop the Northwest territories-Nunavut split.

Maybe if things get really bad in Ontario you could have northwestern Ontario have a referendum and join Manitoba... but your options are pretty limited in the 20th century, you'd have to go back to the 19th otherwise you'll see almost total political breakdown between the provinces and the federal government.
 
Before Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905 there had been a fair bit of discussion about what shape the provinces should be (vertically divided like OTL, or horizontally). I'm not even sure they had fixed on 2, with 1 and 3 or 4 being at least discussed.

So, with a PoD soon after 1900, it's probably still possible to change those boundaries.
 
Probably a bit convoluted but:

Quebec wins the 1995 sovereignty referendum and this triggers negotiations, but between the vague referendum wording and the provincial government suddenly realizing the mess of starting up a new currency, citizenship and passport issues, etc it instead opts for a similar status to Scotland and Wales in the UK with a greater devolution of power over outright separation. However several areas voted against sovereignty and were leery of having a majority Franco provincial government exerting even more control, particularly northern native groups and a few areas with major anglo populations.

Quebec is then partitioned, with most of the south belonging to the new 'nation'. The north is set up with similar status to the territories in Canada. Montreal is considered a special district with added autonomy since around 1/3 to 1/2 of the population is anglo and sovereignty wasn't as popular there and there are also a few anglo-majority towns given special administrative status (basically mini-provinces within a province) so they can avoid things like French language requirements for shops or for the local civil service.
 
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