Thanks for all the feedback, I wasn't expecting this many
I thought I would address most of your posts
Bonaventure is a good one but Maple Leaf doesn’t really sound like the name of a shuttle and Louis Riel is probably way too controversial (being a rebel / traitor and all that).
Ya the TL started with one orbiter doing 87 missions from 85 to 2014 so having everyone will want to name it (whatever) would be kind of annoying, so my middle ground was being named after the symbol that graces our flag, and when I actually calculated out the flights, I realized that with good weather between May and September at the latest, it would be basically two flights a year out of Nova Scotia, so I gave Canada 3 orbiters, to have a rotation where the orbiters launch 2 weeks apart do refurbishment and fly a second time (with Canadian temperatures even with LRB'S I gave them May first to September 7th to launch, which is 129 days, and average orbiter maintenance was 100 days, so it is
tight even with 3 refurbishment bays.
and after your post, I realized yes it does suck so I changed it
why not name like the Royal Canadians Navy ships?
HMCS Quebec
HMCS Bonaventure
HMCS Ottawa
And give Military orbiter the name CF-105 Arrow
Just wanted to say I love your work and am a big fan
I didn't name them after provinces/Cities because it would get viewed as favoritism "Space shuttle was called New York instead of California type situation"
I am an Arrow fan as well, but it seems like a boring name to give the shuttle, and I would rather commemorate a Canadian WW1 legend
but in the TL if I have Canada build more orbiters it will have the name,
Also, my naming convention for the orbiter numbers is CAN-OV-10x, so CF-105 is off the table
and as a firm believer in the Cool Names Matter Belief, HMCS Tecumseh doesn't ring as good
One of them should probably be Bluenose, named for the famous schooner, and another should be Anik or Nimiq, after the famous Canadian satellites.
Don't like the name Bluenose too much, and Anik already flew before so that's off the table, Nimiq is the name for my idea of the Canadian free flyer, like the original idea for the Columbus module
There needs to be a balance of English and French, which places extra value on words that are the same in both languages and French words that are well-known to English speakers. So Bonaventure counts. I like Voyageur. Endeavour is the Canadian English spelling for a word that is the same in French; Aspiration is also the same in both languages (although it also means "suction" in French).
I agree
in the TL the OTL Endeavor will be named Perseverance
Never even thought of that
also, I posted the first entry
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-canadian-launch-service.536019/#post-23740918
The shuttle names are as Follows
Bonaventure
Louis Riel
Tecumseh
potential next Can-OVs include enterprise and Billy Bishop and Arrow, I seriously thought of Samuel de Champlain, but with how long the name is I have to revert to one of the rules of Endeavour naming, ease of use, which sounds silly until "Cold Lake, Bonaventure" vs "Cold Lake, Samuel de Champlain" and you say it to yourself A Bunch
