Canada with 25 Provinces

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This thread gives me an idea... Australia with 15 states! As with Canada, Oz just needs more people to stop it looking a bit silly!
 
When "Estrie" became a distinct province during the 1920s, it was also distinctly English-dominated.

The elites were certainly English in the Eastern Townships right up to the Quiet Revolution. But after the original English speaking settlers the townships were filled up with french-speaking Quebecois, certainly by the 1860's and 70's. The area of English dominance was limited to the stretch from Brome to Sherbrooke - but even these areas had French MPs by the 1930's. While areas a bit closer to Montreal, like Bagot, had a French MP from 1867.

So perhaps this province would have had a different name when it emerged in the 1920's, but once the french cultural and political dominance was complete in the 1980's a change to a name like "Estrie" would have been inevitable. I'm not sure what that English name would have been in the 20's - Eastern Townships sounds weird as the name for a Province. Thoughts?
 
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