Call me crazy, but perhaps a Cavalier Readeption would butterfly the American Anarchy, with all those different countries and colonies? No King in Virginia means that the Chesapeake colonies stay with the Commonwealth - OTL Fendall's Revolt in Maryland was put down, but if Charles Stuart hadn't been around to stop it, the entire Eastern Seaboard would have fallen to the Commonwealthsmen. After that, who knows? An independent American Republic? And then what happens with New Amsterdam and New Sweden?
There's several republics around today, actually. Canada's just one of them(although we're the largest, and by far, the most significant of all the North American nations, rivalled only by Mexico). There's also Columbia(of which the long gone New Amsterdam is a key part of. BTW, I hear New York City is lovely this time of year.), Carolina, and even Virginia is a republic today as well.
Although, of course, if you wanted a timeline with all of these others as part of one unit, maybe you've already heard of Annetta Jones's "The Story of a Nation"?
Pennsylvania is another interesting butterfly: if Lord Protector John Lambert hadn't sent Penn to colonise that vital bulwark against Virginian aggression, well, it probably wouldn't exist at all! Think of the knock-on effects of that! No Pennsylvanian War of Independence, no Good King John Penn...
John Penn was really only King in name only, though. He never actually accepted this title and continued to rule as governor until his death.
Maybe. Irish Catholics are going to want to escape to a Catholic territory even if it is a French colony. Let's not pretend that the Stuarts were pro-Toleration here.
Well, the province of Quebec *was* a French colony, anyway, up until about 20 years before the Canadian Revolution anyway.
OOC: Let's just assume that the Royal Brits briefly got ahold of New Amsterdam and some colonial administrator wanted to rename the colony after the city of York or Yorkshire, for some reason, and got his wish. Also, why would there still be colonies in North America in the 21st Century?
