AHC: (Respectfully) Wank Canada

The Challenge: Canada is cold, I know. Everybody knows. Half of the Canadians live within 100 km of the US border, not out of affection for the US, but to escape the cold.

But let's consider. What if Canadians had decided long ago, as early as 1900, that this one fact put them at a disadvantage, and limited their options in terms of a full advantageous usage of the vast spaces, energies, and resources to be brought to bear in a noble quest to build the grandest, most amazing, most incredible (and not just highly respected) CANADA they could imagine?

The Quest: Build six major cities more than 300 km north of the Southern border of Canada. Each city should be ecologically and economically sustainable, attractive to immigrant populations, have unique attractive amenities and cultural features, year round transportation to and from at least one other major city in Canada, and have an appropriately Canadian name, symbol, and motto. ALSO: Five of the six cities must achieve a population of two million by 1980. One of the six cities must achieve a population of 10 million by 2000.

The Prize: My earnest American footsucking admiration
 
General Richard Rohmer's Mid-Canada plan is put into action. Or better yet, someone prominent around 1900 devises something which is basically the same thing and gets it put into action decades before Rohmer is even born.

Here's a very optimistic article about the plan. That's just Mid-Canada, though. I think to achieve that goal, you're gonna need a hell of a lot more than Mid-Canada somehow working. I think a communist government in Canada (which will require one in the US too since no way in hell is non-commie US letting communists run Canada) might opt for resettlement programs in that vein, particularly if relations with the US are still...icy...despite both being communist nations. So communists are probably your best bet for getting the thing started.

It's a start, even if it's bound to not be very respectful to either the environment or First Nations peoples. You might get some nice cultural programs like the Soviet Union ran for its indigenous peoples to make up for everything else, however, so there's your culture.
 
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General Richard Rohmer's Mid-Canada plan is put into action. Or better yet, someone prominent around 1900 devises something which is basically the same thing and gets it put into action decades before Rohmer is even born.

Here's a very optimistic article about the plan. That's just Mid-Canada, though. I think to achieve that goal, you're gonna need a hell of a lot more than Mid-Canada somehow working. I think a communist government in Canada (which will require one in the US too since no way in hell is non-commie US letting communists run Canada) might opt for resettlement programs in that vein, particularly if relations with the US are still...icy...despite both being communist nations. So communists are probably your best bet for getting the thing started.

It's a start, even if it's bound to not be very respectful to either the environment or First Nations peoples. You might get some nice cultural programs like the Soviet Union ran for its indigenous peoples to make up for everything else, however, so there's your culture.

Well, a plan for mid-Canada that goes somewhere successful sounds good, but turning Canada totalitarian Communist (plus the U.S. just to make it all work out) doesn't seem like a very CANADIAN thing to do (which is what I am going for here, never mind the complete trashing of Native culture, which isn't right, and wouldn't even be necessary. Canada is BIG and RICH.)
 
If Britain and France go commie in the early 20th century,a large amount of migrants would go to Canada,if given enough time I suppsose around 5 million new migrants could reach Canada,this population could then grow rapidly and settle middle Canada.
 
Yes, all of the facts that GREAT BRITAIN has offered may be true, but emigrants from Europe have a choice of nations to go to if they are skilled, and I think maybe Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States would certainly pull the larger share of so many millions. My question is, how to pull more people to Canada, make them part of Canada, and grow Mid Canada. What actions do Canadians need to take to make all that more likely?

For starters, Canadian immigration policy for the late 19th and early 20th Century doesn't seem to have been all that liberal or even mildly friendly. If interested, you should check out

www.pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/canadian-immigration-acts-and-legislation

(This link is entirely accurate but will not function as desired. The website is easily found by Googling "Canadian immigration laws")

How can you build an amazing Canada with laws like that?
 
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