Can a Candawank and an Ameriwank coexist?

George Washington accepts the offer to become a king.

A later American king two successors later, who is compared to Alexander the Great, decides to use the armies population and economic base to assemble the largest force he can, and head south to conquer the collapsing Spanish Empire. Promising liberation from the peninsulares and criollos, enacting Napoleon-style reforms, and being willing to go native, he makes it all the way to southern Peru. Meanwhile, he ignores his original territories as a Richard the Lionheart like figure.

When it becomes clear that the king will spread the abolition of slavery to an area that would have been referred to as the Southern states, a rebellion spreads outward from South Carolina. At the same time, the North is, though happy with the weakening of Southern planters, not so willing to fight for a king that only cares about his southern conquests.

So they elect to secede too. Soon afterward, they elect a new king--George IV of Britain.

The War of 1812 and the US Civil War are in a sense combined into one war, which occurs in the 1820s and 1830s. Canada extends to the Mason-Dixon line, the United States of America from the Mason-Dixon line to the Río Grande, and the Kingdom of America from the Río Grande to the Andes.

Eventually, one America takes the other, and then the rest of South America. Canada and America are both great powers.
 
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Still smarting over the loss of Maine to the British in the War of 1812 the Americans are far less willing to compromise over Oregon. The 54 40 or fight dispute gets a lot closer to war than it does in OTL and has no resolution by the time the Mexican-American War breaks out. Britain sees an opportunity for peace and offers the US support in the war against Mexico in exchange for the disputed territory. A short victorious war leaves the US annexing Mexico as Polk needs to ease the loss of Oregon and appease those arguing for Manifest destiny.

The new Mexican territories resist being made into Slave states as slavery has been illegal there for decades. Upset that the new Mexican states are blocking the expansion of slavery and with a much heavier focus on southern expansion rather than west Congress pushes strongly for the purchase of Cuba. Spain, feeling that the Caribbean is quickly becoming an American pond and Cuba is increasingly isolated accepts a substantial purchase payment. Cuba enters the Union as a slave state to help counter the free Mexican states.

As the Civil War breaks out Spain and France both use the opportunity to reoccupy some of their former Caribbean colonies and try to undermine US control of Mexico. Mexico mostly sits out of the Civil War torn between a dislike of the occupying Union and the reluctance to side with the slave-owning Confederacy. After the war the US demands France and Spain leave their reoccupied colonial possessions of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and other smaller islands. They refuse and after several small but decisive battles the American's use their Civil War might to force them out. The colonies are freed but forced to sign constitutions that offers US protection but gives the US the right to control their foreign policy and intervene in domestic affairs.

In 1893 the Kingdom of Hawaii is overthrown by a group of wealthy immigrants. Several prominent immigrants are from Vancouver and Seattle and feel that their business interests would be best served by joining the British Empire under Canada. The UK is pleased and the islands are promptly annexed.

In 1903 the US government offers to purchase Panama from Columbia in order to build a canal. Then Columbia refuses the US lands troops and establishes a constitution similar to the Dominican one, giving limited home rule. In the following years a canal is built and road and rail connections built between Panama and the US states in Mexico. The nations between the two are forced to content themselves with being close satellites of the US.
 
Is it possible for a large Canada coexisting with a large America. Maybe Canada could get Alaska, Greenland, and Iceland while America gets Mexico and Central America? Both Canada and America have islands in the Caribbean? Eh? Is it possible, though. To have a coexistence of a God-like Canada and a Deity-America ruling the world as a binary power of freedom and liberalism?

Edit: I have just noticed I spelt Canada wrong on the title. My bad :)

Yeah. Just move Canada a few degrees southward(at least mostly), and have the U.S. take over/sign off on more of northern Mexico. And there you have it. :D
 
If Canada can whip America in the War of 1812 she can maybe grab the old Northwest, Northern New York state, most of (or all of) Maine, then she can sit pretty and get all of Oregon too. After that, Alaska is plausible and maybe Greenland (less so). Hawaii is a coin toss that could go either way.

America pushes for a Mexican border further south than OTL, grabs the Dominican (and perhaps absorbs Haiti eventually), Cuba and maybe few Central American reublics.

Now you have a Canada that's still very powerful in it's own right and able to flex its muscle independent of the UK or USA, but still nowhere near the behemoth that is the USA.
 

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Decades of darkness pulled it off for a while. An expansionist, southern-dominated US that conquered most of the hemisphere, but one where New England was independent and Canada took in Wisconsin, Washington state, and much of what was in between, while never taking the Atlantic provinces (which went to New England.)

Then again, the latter half of that timeline turned into a Canada-screw.

EDIT: and somehow I missed the post just above mine saying the exact same thing.
 
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