Canada is a funny thing, when you think of it. When a colonizer has a colony, or multiple colonies near each other, it seems it always loses all the colonies together, or close to each other. Yet, the British never lost Canada. They lost the Thirteen Colonies, but they kept Canada, and many English loyalists went there.

So, could Brazil have its own "Portuguese Canada"? Where?
I'm thinking "Portuguese Canada" would logically be Grão-Pará, due to distance and logistics - Lisboa is closer to Belém than Rio de Janeiro, and the North was the last part of Portuguese America to join Brazil. Its also important to remember Grão-Pará & Maranhão was administered directly by Portugal for a long time.

Perhaps the Northeast, but it was the Portuguese defeat in the Northeast that won Brazil the war, after all.

Any idea of a good PoD that could result in Brazil having its own Canada?
 
Canada is a funny thing, when you think of it. When a colonizer has a colony, or multiple colonies near each other, it seems it always loses all the colonies together, or close to each other. Yet, the British never lost Canada. They lost the Thirteen Colonies, but they kept Canada, and many English loyalists went there.

So, could Brazil have its own "Portuguese Canada"? Where?
I'm thinking "Portuguese Canada" would logically be Grão-Pará, due to distance and logistics - Lisboa is closer to Belém than Rio de Janeiro, and the North was the last part of Portuguese America to join Brazil. Its also important to remember Grão-Pará & Maranhão was administered directly by Portugal for a long time.

Perhaps the Northeast, but it was the Portuguese defeat in the Northeast that won Brazil the war, after all.

Any idea of a good PoD that could result in Brazil having its own Canada?

Canada as we know it exists precisely because of those Loyalists who went there. Canada pre-ARW was pretty much what we know of as Quebec and smaller settlements in Nova Scotia, it was the the American Loyalists who settled in Southern Ontario who laid the groundwork for the development of Canada post that period.

It's not surprising Canada never truly rebelled against the British as their very existence is owed to the fact they wanted to stay loyal to the crown.

In Brazils case you need a fair amount of people who want to continue to be a part of Portugal.
 
Grão-Pará and Maranhão could have been the Brazilian Canada, given that these provinces originally rejected the declaration of independence, and had to be conquered by Cochrane. Said that, I can't think now of an specific PoD to keep them with Portugal. Maybe Cochrane dies and the Brazilian government fails at conquering them.
The rest of the Northwest definitively not. It was clearly pro-independence, to the point that Pernambuco had expelled the Portuguese forces there even before the DoI.
 
Canada as we know it exists precisely because of those Loyalists who went there. .

That is part of it. The other part of it was that the Catholic Church in Québec supported the British régime and discouraged the Canadiens from rebelling. This hurt the cause of the Patriotes.
 
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