Canada becomes a world power by 1950s

What should be rather easy and what wouldn't change Canada that much is to have the western border of Canada being more in the South, thus Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dacotas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana end up in Canada.

Then increase immigration - for example by allowing all those ethnicities that the US didn't.

Finally, ITTL getting Alaska and Hawaii into Canada is possible.

The added landmass brings some millions of inhabitants into Canada, increased immigration can easily provide further millions, so Canada ends up with 100+ million inhabitants and certainly is a world power by then.
 
What should be rather easy and what wouldn't change Canada that much is to have the western border of Canada being more in the South, thus Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dacotas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana end up in Canada.

Then increase immigration - for example by allowing all those ethnicities that the US didn't.

Finally, ITTL getting Alaska and Hawaii into Canada is possible.

The added landmass brings some millions of inhabitants into Canada, increased immigration can easily provide further millions, so Canada ends up with 100+ million inhabitants and certainly is a world power by then.

Easy? In theory perhaps. Absent a big British victory in the War of 1812 or a direct British military intervention during the Civil War, I just can't see a plausable way by which the British/Canadians ending up with all that (OTL) American territory.
 
Easy? In theory perhaps. Absent a big British victory in the War of 1812 or a direct British military intervention during the Civil War, I just can't see a plausable way by which the British/Canadians ending up with all that (OTL) American territory.

Simply have Clarks Ohio campaign in the ARW fail or more likely not be so successful.

Its not like were talking huge numbers of men here say a detachement of Fr. Cdn militia dispatched..its still in the province of Quebec after all. Say they were to arrive in Detroit about the same time Clark initially takes Vincennes...and Governor Hamilton probably doesn t dither and moves immediately to retake the southern forts arriving in Vincennes in plenty of time to march on Kaskaskia and Cahokia before the Winter sets in. Clark sits out the remainder of the ARW as Hamilton s guest in Detroit.

A commitement of even marginal forces by either side to this theatre will probably change its status at the peace of Paris...give it something akin to the Oregon territory, joint occupancy for the immediate term and its final status to be determined later. Britain obviously would not be giving up any forts which would all lie to the west in any case with the exception of Ft. Miami. So they would not be a direct threat to the young republic, but would bolster relations with the natives right from the start. Say Brant takes the Iroquois even further west TTL and settles them in that other Grand River basin in western Michigan instead of southern Ontario. It would make more sense in this case to settle among their fellow natives the Potowatomi or the Kickapoo. As long as the British hold Detroit, Ouiatenon, Vincennes and points west in collaboration with the Natives, particularly the Shawnee, then their bargaining position is extremely good.

Under such developments its likely the territory would be split in half later down the road...with the north around the lakes to Britain as a protectorate/ Terr. and the Ohio Valley regions to the US.

Given that, its likely that Britain could push for a lower border in the West. Really depends though on whether The LP occurs as OTL. British bargaining with the Spanish, French or Americans will track differently in each case.
 
What should be rather easy and what wouldn't change Canada that much is to have the western border of Canada being more in the South, thus Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Dacotas, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana end up in Canada.

Then increase immigration - for example by allowing all those ethnicities that the US didn't.

Finally, ITTL getting Alaska and Hawaii into Canada is possible.

The added landmass brings some millions of inhabitants into Canada, increased immigration can easily provide further millions, so Canada ends up with 100+ million inhabitants and certainly is a world power by then.

Alaska is fairly easy given early enough departures...The Dryad affair in the 1830 s for instance...change attitudes during the Crimean War...

and Voila...

Hawaii would be harder as any instance in which it remains in the British orbit probably gives it an independent or protectorate status akin to say Samoa, Fiji or Tonga instead...

does t mean you couldn t have a pro Cdn coup I suppose if the position on the West coast was strong enough of course....but that would be very late probably...in the early 20th C. say the 1920s or 30s

Settlement west of the Red River valley would probably still be well into the late 1880s or 90s before you could get significant numbers. Even with the larger NWT, its still going to be in the preserve of the native inhabitants, RCMP and HBC traders until the railroad to the Districts of Columbia and New Caledonia are built allowing for settlement along that route.
 
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