Suppose Australia was not available for settlement and the British convicts were all sent to Canada instead. What would be the effect on Canada as we know it?
I would also ask What would be the effect on Australia and New Zealand (if Australia is not available, what would happen with New Zealand?)
Suppose Australia was not available for settlement and the British convicts were all sent to Canada instead.
Well yes, but what are they going to do about it? They can't afford to fight a war, they could barely afford it in 1812 when Britain was into it with L'Emperur and New England still wouldn't be on board.Seeing as how the shipping of convicts to the Americas was one of the pet peves of the American Rebels, do you think the British would really start dumping them in Canada right after the Revolution? Sounds kind of counter-productive....
Well yes, but what are they going to do about it? They can't afford to fight a war, they could barely afford it in 1812 when Britain was into it with L'Emperur and New England still wouldn't be on board.
I guess Steve Irwin becomes known as the Moose Hunter.
I think he is talking about Canada, not the USA.
Seeing as how the shipping of convicts to the Americas was one of the pet peves of the American Rebels...
Pretty sure he meant how the USA would react.
Hmm, I never would have read it that way. Thanks for bringing it up a little more obviously.No I think he means that the Canadians might get upset like the Americans had been.
Basically Britain does not acquire the antipodals. For example if some other power claimed the region.By 'not available' do you just mean that Cook didn't come back with a favourable view (or at all) or that Britain somehow lacks the ability to establish a colony so far away?
shipping people halfway around the world has to have been VERY expensive. I could certainly see someone saying 'duh, we have BNA right here, let's ship them there'.Suppose Australia was not available for settlement and the British convicts were all sent to Canada instead. What would be the effect on Canada as we know it?
shipping people halfway around the world has to have been VERY expensive. I could certainly see someone saying 'duh, we have BNA right here, let's ship them there'.
They could even use the convicts to populate chunks of Upper Canada that weren't very welcoming...
Which is worse punishment, Oz with its beaches and balmy weather, or e.g. a -40 Ottawa winter?![]()
Well, personally, I suspect that -40 weather might be more of ACTUAL hazard than poisonous critters that aren't THAT common. For the first year. By year 2 or so, they learn how to deal with the weather, while the snakes aren't going away. So, ja.You mean Canada with it's rediculously long border with the US or the Desert Island of Australia with more poisonous creatures than non poisonous ones? Australia makes a more natural prison, with it's poinson jelyfish, crocodile, poisonous snake, and shark infested waters all around.