Challenge: Canada as a Métis nation

The biggest problem facing this challenge is the fact that the Indigenous population of Canada is vastly smaller than in your example of Mexico. Admittedly, I don't think it would be that hard to have say a Métis protectorate established by the British somewhere in OTL Canadian territory, but to have all of Canada (or at least anything similar to what we know as Canada) be truly as Métis as Mexico is Mestizo would be extremely difficult.

One possibility though is to have a successful Vinland colony very slowly colonize the rest of OTL Canada and thus have a Nordic "Métis Canada" form, but I think that's at close as you're going to get to what you're after.
 
Not sure, I think the Scots did fairly commonly too. Also Argentina and Chile aren't that Mestizo if I remember correctly.

To back this up somewhat; it's no coincidence in my (admittedly subjective) experience that huge numbers of folks in the Appalachians can trace back both Native American AND Scottish/Scots-Irish ancestry to fairly large, and almost equal, degrees. Compare this with the fact that the local Tribes apparently got on well with Highlanders and other Scots conducting trades in furs and other goods. When put together with the fair presence of Scots along the Red River Metis communities, and I'd say that the Scots DID intermarry/mingle with the Natives quite well compared to the English.

And no, Argentina is pretty much majority white (moreso than the US really), as well as Uruguay. Chile I think has a fairly large mestizo population, but half the country is white indeed.
 
It makes me think that climate is as much a factor as culture. Europeans colonise the heck out of the higher latitudes (until you get extreme), but not so much the tropics.
 
Just why didn't the Anglo settlers intermarry with the natives to the same extent that the Continental ones did?

Because there weren't nearly as many natives. Something like 10x fewer natives, if population estimates are to be believed. Central and Northern South America were chock full of people, other parts of the continents not as much.

And no, Argentina is pretty much majority white (moreso than the US really), as well as Uruguay. Chile I think has a fairly large mestizo population, but half the country is white indeed.

Same in the Southern Cone.
 
It makes me think that climate is as much a factor as culture. Europeans colonise the heck out of the higher latitudes (until you get extreme), but not so much the tropics.

Population density is really the key. The Native urban societies (Mexico, Peru) were places where the Spanish could exploit a large sedentary population. The mostly-White parts of the Americas aren't that way because the colonists were squeamish about intermarriage - they're White because all the Indians in those places died or left.
 
If the British crown with its military backing determines that certain areas of Canada are protectorates independent of Upper and Lower Canada and does not hesitate to use this force to prevent incursions and settler wars, then maybe, but it would be similar to trying to establish the Appalachians as the border of the Americas, and enforcing that. It might well lead to the Canadas rebelling as per the USA, and in a sense as per OTL, except in this scenario they may be more pro-American, and even agree to affiliation in return for support


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Grey Wolf
 
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