AHC: Peerages in the British Dominions

Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Orania do not have upper houses like the one in Britain, with peers/lords appointed by the Head of State (The Queen, in that case).

The challenge is to change this in at least one of these countries, and have it be the case all the way to present day. Bonus points if the upper house still has Lords/Peers appointed to it even though the country is a Republic, and has a President, not a Governor General or Queen.

Feel free to talk about the WI effects of this as well.
 
Canada's Senate is made up of people appointed by the GG on the advice of the PM, so it a lot like the British system in that sense.
 
Considering the recent senate scandals in Canada, we could not do much worse with appointed peers.
Many Canadian voters believe that recent senate spending scandals were organized by former Prime Minister Steven Harper to discredit the existing senate and replace it with his Alberta Oil cronies.
Patrick Duffy was always an opportunistic Conservative Party hack.
Patrick Brazeau was a wild cannon, never elected to sit, but Harper owed him a few favours, so gave Brazeau a seat in the Senate.
As for Pamela Whallen (sp?) we wonder ?????

To make a noble upper house challenge is convincing enough remittance men and drunken, philandering third sons of English earls to manage family estates in "the colonies."
Not sure if estates in Canada generated sufficient surplus funds to keep an Englush earl permanently inebriated. ????
Definitely not on fine wines!
Displaced peers might be forced to establish their own vineyards .... climatically impractical until global warming recently kicked in.
 
If the intent was to introduce Peerages in the Dominions then your best chance is pre-1900.

And even then, the problem would remain the aftermath of the 1837-38 rebellions in both Upper and Lower Canada, which directed their rage at their governing classes, the Family Compact for Upper Canada and the Château Clique in Lower Canada. While those two would seem like natural talent pools for what the OP conceives of for the Senate with a pre-1900 POD, the reality is that not that many people would accept it. Tradition only goes so far.
 
And even then, the problem would remain the aftermath of the 1837-38 rebellions in both Upper and Lower Canada, which directed their rage at their governing classes, the Family Compact for Upper Canada and the Château Clique in Lower Canada. While those two would seem like natural talent pools for what the OP conceives of for the Senate with a pre-1900 POD, the reality is that not that many people would accept it. Tradition only goes so far.

I think weirdly that South Africa might be the most likely of the listed dominions to develop a peerage. You're most likely right about Canada
 
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