DBAHC invert Canada

Take every stereotype and cliche about Canada and Canadians you can think of and alter history so that their opposite is widely supposed to be true. Obviously you can go back to the voyages of discovery and you may have to.
 
The first one that comes to mind is how obsessed everyone here is with the Canadian Royal Family, yet you know we'd hate to pay for them. Maybe if Queen Victoria didn't have 9 sons they wouldn't have had the bright idea to send some of the younger ones to start Kingdoms out of colonies. All I know is if a world without Prince Francis, Duke of Clarence means I don't have to hear about how "Princess Louise is pregnant with twin girls" for the 77th time, "Is this random girl finally the one for Prince Albert", or worst of all "Gin addicted Jane tries to force Queen Victoria II off her throne" sign me up.

(On the other hand, the sports rivalry between Canada, Australia, & New Zealand, initially fueled by Francis and his younger brothers Frederick and Augustus, wouldn't exist, which would make me irrationally sad, so maybe not).
 
Figure out some way of having a different North American country control the territory to the south of the Great Lakes and New England. That'd rob Canada of a large chunk of its population, which in turn would make it far less able to be a major military power...and being a major military power is one thing everyone associates with the nation.
 
Figure out some way of having a different North American country control the territory to the south of the Great Lakes and New England. That'd rob Canada of a large chunk of its population, which in turn would make it far less able to be a major military power...and being a major military power is one thing everyone associates with the nation.
As someone who lives in that region, I freaking doubt it would be possible. While we may be populous we have a reputation for being big into the military but also being the least organized province in the country. Everyone already gives Checagou a hard time for allegedly rigging multiple elections as a mid-size city, imagine if it didn't have the oversight from Ottawa or even Toronto and had major political influence.
 
Canada is a Gallic-descended, French-speaking country spanning Quadra Island to Terre-Neuve [OTL Newfoundland], the northern neighbor of the United States. Despite Anglo invasions during the colonial era and British occupation of peninsular Acadia [OTL Nova Scotia] from 1710-1763, the Canadians in the original provinces (Quebec-once-Canada, Acadia, Ile-Royal, and Terre-Neuve) held back the Anglo-American forces (the British invasion of Fort Beausejour in 1754 proving disastrous, halting a planned expulsion of the local colonistz within peninsular Acadia, and allowing an eventual liberation of peninsula aided by the mainlander [OTL New Brunswick] Acadians by Montcalm in 1760) and thence provided aid alongside the mother country to the American colonists in their War of Independence. It was in the 1783 Treaty of Paris that France regained Terre-Neuve (lost at Utrecht in 1713) and gained Hudson Bay, expelling all the English colonists in them to make room for exiled Terre-Neuvannais in Ile-Royale to return home to Plaisance and other settlements on the island.

The sole exception to Canada's linguistic homogeneity is the American Loyalist-founded enclave, Ontario, below the Kawartha Lakes, an allowance by the King of France as a concession in the Treaty of Paris negotiations for the many northern Loyalists who had no ability or money to sail to Britain. Given religious autonomy in return for a personal oath of loyalty to His Most Catholic Majesty, the province would thrive and eventually join the Canadian War of Independence in late 1830s, having become integrated into the wider French North American sphere and holding an ancestral distaste to joining the republican United States of America. It has seen a nationalist revival in the mid 20th-century and become rabidly Anglophone and prideful of its English heritage, causing rifts with its more immediate neighbors of Quebec, Huronie (Huronia) [OTL Northern Ontario], and the Republic of Canada in general.
 
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The first one that comes to mind is how obsessed everyone here is with the Canadian Royal Family, yet you know we'd hate to pay for them. Maybe if Queen Victoria didn't have 9 sons they wouldn't have had the bright idea to send some of the younger ones to start Kingdoms out of colonies. All I know is if a world without Prince Francis, Duke of Clarence means I don't have to hear about how "Princess Louise is pregnant with twin girls" for the 77th time, "Is this random girl finally the one for Prince Albert", or worst of all "Gin addicted Jane tries to force Queen Victoria II off her throne" sign me up.

(On the other hand, the sports rivalry between Canada, Australia, & New Zealand, initially fueled by Francis and his younger brothers Frederick and Augustus, wouldn't exist, which would make me irrationally sad, so maybe not).

Us Americans are also tired of your royal family. Every single tabloid has something to say about them
 
Perhaps, Canada could cultivate its bloodthirsty exploits during the World Wars and present itself as the Sparta of the New World, instead of heading the opposite direction OTL.
 
Maybe the Marijuana Prohibition Act could have been voted down by their parliament. It'll take some more effort to stop Joe McCanuck from Toronto from thinking weed is the devil's drug though...
 
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