Canadian Caribbean

WI the plan to unify the plan the british North American colony had been much more ambitious and plan to include the British possession in the Caribbean had been made and execute.
 
I'd think they'd pretty much look like what the Maritimes look like, except with darker-skinned people. I don't see a whole lot of sustainable economic production going on.
 
I'd think they'd pretty much look like what the Maritimes look like, except with darker-skinned people. I don't see a whole lot of sustainable economic production going on.

Tourism, among other things.

I'm Canadian, and I still wish some island in the carribean (turks and caicos please:D) will ask to join us.

That way, millions of Canadians can go to the carribean without leaving the country. It'd be great.
 
Would it take long before we have a Carabean Prime Minister?

I know it would be unlikely but what would happen if Canada elected a non-white president at a time were segregation was still around in the U.S?

Would they have a separatist movement like in Quebec?

How would we organise them?
 
Well Cuba would be happy.. a shorter route to their main (last I checked somewhere) trading partner
 
Tourism, among other things.

I'm Canadian, and I still wish some island in the carribean (turks and caicos please:D) will ask to join us.

That way, millions of Canadians can go to the carribean without leaving the country. It'd be great.

Actually the Turks and Caicos islands approached Canada about a union sometime in the early 80's I believe. Unfortunately we turned them down.:mad:
 
Actually the Turks and Caicos islands approached Canada about a union sometime in the early 80's I believe. Unfortunately we turned them down.:mad:

Wait you tell me we actually turn down territory...boy are we strange...apparently Prime Minister Borden back in 1917 suggested we annex it


Wikipedia got some interesting thing about the concept

* Turks and Caicos Islands - A British overseas territory in the Caribbean. There is some support for it to join Canada, and in 2004 Nova Scotia voted to invite Turks and Caicos to join that province, in the event of the islands becoming Canadian. However, the islands' small economy and Canada's involvement in Haiti has made this controversial. On March 2, 2009 the Ottawa Citizen ran an article on its online site reporting the interest of the Canadian government to open a deep-water port in the Caribbean that would "opened up a new market for Canadian goods"[5]. The article proposed that "the port, unaffordable for Caribbean countries [would] boost the standard of living and bolstered hemispheric security. ... as a Canadian military operations base for countries wanting help to patrol their waters and to interdict the Caribbean's robust trade in smuggled arms, drugs and people"[6]. In the 1990s support for integration into Canada as an "11th province" was at 90%, while in 2003 support for integration stood at around 60% in the Turks and Caicos islands. Mr. Goldring, a Conservative MP from Edmonton has championed the cause of integrating the Turks and Caicos islands as a Canadian territory for security benefits as well as increasing Canada's influence in Central and Southern America in regards to anti-terrorism, trade and combating encroaching Chinese influence in several small Caribbean islands, such as St. Lucia[7].
* Jamaica - In the late 19th century, there was some discussion of some form of political union between Canada and Jamaica.

* Barbados - In 1884, the Barbados Agricultural Society sent a letter to Sir Francis Hincks requesting his private and public views on whether the Dominion of Canada would favourably entertain having the then colony of Barbados admitted as a member of the Canadian Confederation. Asked of Canada were the terms of the Canadian side to initiate discussions, and whether or not the island of Barbados could depend on the full influence of Canada in getting the change agreed to by Britain. Then in 1952 the Barbados Advocate newspaper polled several prominent Barbadian politicians, lawyers, businessmen, the Speaker of the Barbados House of Assembly and later as first President of the Senate, Sir Theodore Branker, Q.C. and found them to be in favour of immediate federation of Barbados along with the rest of the British Caribbean with complete Dominion Status within five years from the date of inauguration of the West Indies Federation with Canada.

* Bermuda - In 1949 Henry Vassey, then Chairman of the Bermuda Trade Development Board, urged the House of Assembly of Bermuda to pursue a political union with Canada. Four Methodist church congregations in Bermuda are part of The United Church of Canada, forming Bermuda Presbytery of the United Church's Maritime Conference headquartered in Sackville, New Brunswick.

* The West Indies Federation – In a 1952 letter by T.G. Major, a Canadian Trade Commissioner in Trinidad and Tobago, it was stated to the Under Secretary of State for External Affairs that the respective leaders of the British Caribbean could not reach a clear consensus for the exact style of a federal union with Canada. During a parliamentary conference held in Ottawa, it was also noted though that the colony of British Honduras (present day Belize) showed the most interest in a union with Canada exceeding that of the other British Caribbean colonies.

Canadian posssession in the Caibbean might change Quebec ethnic make up, immigration from Haiti pretty big, but they might go to thoses island instead of here
 
I've always wondered how strong a play the various Dominions made for the British controlled islands that are scattered about the world.
 

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Would it take long before we have a Carabean Prime Minister?

I know it would be unlikely but what would happen if Canada elected a non-white president at a time were segregation was still around in the U.S?

Would they have a separatist movement like in Quebec?

How would we organise them?

We have a Haitian Governor General, which is the Queens representative in Canada. I don't see electing someone from the Caribbean as too hard if they're running into a government post and into Ottawa, then into a Cabinet as their portfolio expands and then named as successor by the party.

We don't have a president.

They would have a "Give us more money" movement, yes.

We'd organize them like how PEI is organized now.
 
We have a Haitian Governor General, which is the Queens representative in Canada. I don't see electing someone from the Caribbean as too hard if they're running into a government post and into Ottawa, then into a Cabinet as their portfolio expands and then named as successor by the party.

We don't have a president.

They would have a "Give us more money" movement, yes.

We'd organize them like how PEI is organized now.

heh sorry yes yes I know we don't have a president my bad, I meant Prime Minister :eek:

but I was motly wondering considering racism was very acceptable for a long time and caraibbean don't have exactly have the same ethnic make-up as Canada (even less back in the 19th century) so they would probably be treated with a negative prejudice. Thing is that I'm not really sure if the racial attitudes would change quicker and to what point or stay relatively the same

Could you imagine if we had barbados that would mean Rihanna would be Canadian ;)

Anyway here possibily what we could have

* Antigua and Barbuda
* The Bahamas
* Barbados
* Dominica
* Grenada
* Jamaica
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Trinidad and Tobago

I like to possibly include Belize but its might be strech
 
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Maybe a timeline where relations between the US and Britain stay bad and since the British won't sell to the US or abandon their Caribbean possessions, an agreement is struck that they'll sell them to the Canadians, who are sort of the neutral moderator between the two?

That is, if the US and the UK were in bad blood, the US after it got powerful would not really want the Caribbean to a British lake.

Edit: alright, by the time the US was powerful enough to make this a worthy threat the days of selling colonial possessions, at least for the British to be doing it, would probably be over.

Still, the idea of a Canadian Caribbean as a way of keeping the waters neutral for use by both the US and UK in a situation where the two don't get along has some value.
 
Well maybe the U.S could invade some island during the 1812 and the british move them back

Say wouldn't it change some off-shore banking and other legal loophole, I mean one of ex-Prime Minister registred his ship in Barbados (ok they arre more enough island to make very little difference)
 
A Canadian Caribbean is possible but forget about any independent populated island joining Canada. By joining Canada they would become instant minorities on there own islands. With time after a few thousand mainland Canadians move in they would also lose political power.

But there is hope for Canada. Buy Navassa Island from the US. Its uninhabited. Maybe convince the Caiman islands or the BVI to join Canada. They are part of UK. and are not independent. There also is that UK. island in the Caribbean with the Volcano which many people had to abandon. That volcano has to calm down one day.
 
A Canadian Caribbean is possible but forget about any independent populated island joining Canada. By joining Canada they would become instant minorities on there own islands. With time after a few thousand mainland Canadians move in they would also lose political power.

But there is hope for Canada. Buy Navassa Island from the US. Its uninhabited. Maybe convince the Caiman islands or the BVI to join Canada. They are part of UK. and are not independent. There also is that UK. island in the Caribbean with the Volcano which many people had to abandon. That volcano has to calm down one day.

Well that why its in the before 1900 it would take part soomewhere in time either a bit before the AANB or during the ffollowing decades
 
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