Development of a Lower Canada-Maritimes Polity

What if Canada had just been lower Canada and the Maritimes, and Upper Canada had ended up American following the American Revolution?
 
I could see the British forcing something like that on Quebec and the Maritime provinces to prevent the Americans from controlling ship traffic on the St. Lawrence River.
 
Maybe some different divisions of states before the Civil War to appease the South, Also I guess the Americans also get all of Western Canada because they have a good choke in upper Canada
 
How do you define Upper Canada? The entire Great Lakes Littoral, or just the region surrounded by lakes Ontario/Erie/Huron.
 
The Maritimes will look to Britain, while Lower Canada won't. Of course, Lower Canada is clearly the dominant partner. I imagine this will result in great amounts of tension, and if/when the US stops being seen as a would-be conqueror by the British, this union will likely break.

How do you define Upper Canada? The entire Great Lakes Littoral, or just the region surrounded by lakes Ontario/Erie/Huron.

IOTL, a border which was seriously discussed was the Nipissing Line, which looks like:

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Upper Canada didn't exist, of course. I imagine such a border would result in Western Canada falling under American rule as well, though a bit of "Upper Canada" would remain British.
 
The Maritimes will look to Britain, while Lower Canada won't. Of course, Lower Canada is clearly the dominant partner. I imagine this will result in great amounts of tension, and if/when the US stops being seen as a would-be conqueror by the British, this union will likely break.



IOTL, a border which was seriously discussed was the Nipissing Line, which looks like:

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Upper Canada didn't exist, of course. I imagine such a border would result in Western Canada falling under American rule as well, though a bit of "Upper Canada" would remain British.

That was the line I was thinking of. I just don't have a good word to describe that region.

The reason I ask is to determine whether the Grand Portage is British or American. US ownership of the lakes will make transit by British North Americans more difficult as it is, but ownership of the portage could really determine whether the Prairie Provinces end up American or British.
 
Maybe some different divisions of states before the Civil War to appease the South, Also I guess the Americans also get all of Western Canada because they have a good choke in upper Canada

I agree. The British/Canadians control none of the great lakes except maybe the Northern shores of Huron/Superior (I'm assuming a Nipissing Line boindary here). So Montreal is a great port with no hinterland to service. There is no fur trade route from Montreal to Western Canada so OTL Western Canada has no economic link to Lower Canada/Maritimes. I'm guessing that while Lower Canada/Maritimes ends up as a unified Dominion, Rupert's Land remains under HBC control until it is eventually sold to the USA.
 
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