At least he got the chance. The On-to-Ottawa Trekkers murdered by RCMP in Regina didn't.
You mean where RCMP fired into peaceful marchers, don't you?
Belief the leadership is Communist doesn't equate with making the march a free-fire zone.
The marchers and the RCMP were both guilty of violence, though the marchers didn't have many guns among them, though they did use vehicles, rocks, bricks, molotovs and the like as well. Doesnt make it right, but the mess did end up being a real problem for the RCMP more than the marchers.
Against the Bay Street propaganda machine? I'm very dubious. Look what happened to Sinclair in California... Now, if it were true, you could get a response to the Depression not dissimilar to the one I'd take myself.
And looking at your relief projects, you've picked several of the ones I would have, too.
By the 1930s, Welfare Capitalism had existed for decades in Canada, and so the Bay Street machine didn't have complete control of the media. The Toronto Star, for example, supported both the Progressives and the Liberals when it came to policy, and the Daily Globe did as well on some fronts.
Thinking of which, did you consider the Kemano power project?
Built as part of the relief efforts, began producing power in 1939. The big difference here is that a provision of the Treaty of Orillia required the people moved out from the project to be properly compensated, and they were originally compensated in both land and stock in both Alcan and BC Power. Most of the Cheslatta did just that (more than anything out of a desire to be able to influence the decision makers), and the WWII contracts and post-war boom made Alcan a pile of money, which subsequently made the Cheslatta quite wealthy. This was a common theme with British Columbia native tribes, and it has ensured that several communities in British Columbia (particularly those west of Prince George) have quite wealthy inhabitants. Kemano II was completed in 1969, but only after extensive studies into the ecosystems of the region which were ground breaking for the time, and de rigeur for such projects in the Canadian Rockies since then.
I'm also thinking this leads to earlier Old Age Pension & Medicare.
Old Age Pension, yes. Medicare didn't come until after the war.
And btw, what happens to
Woodsworth and
Douglas?
Woodsworth was Thomas Crerar's deputy leader and the Minister of Social Services during his government until he died in 1942, in the process being the creator of the Old Age Pension and being a developer of the Medicare idea, though it didn't get passed until some time after his death. Woodsworth did push forth the careers of M.J. Coldwell and Tommy Douglas, who would be Crerar's successors as the leaders of the Progressive Party.
Tommy Douglas was the Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 until he headed to Ottawa in 1959, and was leader of the Progressive Party from 1959 until he retired in 1975. He was one of those who pushed forwards many of Woodsworth's ideals and policy proposals, and was a policy creator with few rivals during his time as the leader of the Progressives. Modern Canadian Medicare, made law across the country in 1956, stems from his work in Saskatchewan more than any other, and Douglas is credited with being of the chief backers of both the Medicare idea, a major supporter of development efforts in the Caribbean (and that legacy remains to this day, as the Progressives still are a powerful force in many of the Caribbean provinces) as well as the many federal and provincial natural resources funds. Douglas' retirement from the Progressive Leadership was followed by an appointment to the Privy Council by Robert Stanfield in 1976, a position he held until he died in 1986.
That suggests an earlier-than-OTL appearance of the 1000' Lakes freighters, & so the *
Edmund Fitzgerald wreck sooner, too. Does that lead to a Woody Guthrie song, or does it have to wait for Gordy, still?
Never thought about that too much. I'll let you have that one.
Bravissimo. A truly inspired solution.
(I wish I'd thought of it.
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A thought: does this impact the Canadian film, radio, & TV industry the way it did Hollywood?
Yep, doubly so after the war. Between the greater French Canadian influence, the Men of Honour and the Treaty of Orillia and its bringing of Native Canadians as much as possible into Canadian society, much changes in Canada's media and entertainment industries.
And
Adrien Arcand, I presume? Or is he jailed?
Arcand was outright hated by the Crerar-Mackenzie King government, and he was sent to jail for advocating for fascism shortly after the outbreak of war, and the knowledge of the crimes of the Nazis made him a pariah after the war. He never went back to jail after the war, though he was shot in the chest by a Holocaust survivor in 1953 in Montreal. He lived from that (and the Holocaust survivor went to prison for it), but sank out of public life afterwards.
Presuming it's not settled by now...I'd bet against Marley. If he is, it also means Ian Fleming ends up living & writing in Canada.
(Tho, TBH, not a fan of Bond.)
Both of them are born in what are British territories, though Marley does become a Canadian citizen early in Jamaica's time. He lives rather longer here, too, because his cancer was treated much earlier than OTL. He lost a toe to the cancer that IOTL took his life in 1977, but his cancer was gone for a long time after that as a result. His cancer came back badly in the late 1980s, and despite years of fighting it, he died of the cancer in Kingston in September 2002. That said, Marley was easily Jamaica's greatest musician and one of the most famous faces of Canada's media in the 1970s and 1980s. He became a member of the Order of Canada in 1984, and got his star on the Canada's Walk of Fame in 1989, and a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 1991. His music was immortalized by the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 2002, shortly before his death.
With greater Canadian production capacity, & presuming Dunkirk happens more/less as OTL, it seems possible 6pdr &/or 17pdr could be built here, allowing a *Ram Firefly with diesel.
Correct.
He's liable to have trouble at Queens, too; homosexuality wouldn't be legal in Canada for about a decade, IIRC. (And I'll leave off a remark about Queens...
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True, but he wasn't given grief about it at Queens simply because they knew what he was capable of and felt that his mental abilities more than made up for any sexual deviancy of his.
TTL, I presume, Philo Farnsworth was hit by a truck (driven by
Leonard McCoy...
).
Nope. Farnsworth's initial ideas were advanced by Tihanyi, as Farnsworth's designs didn't have the definition to be able to create good image definition. Tihanyi developed that. Philo has a far better fate in this world, too - among other things, he gets a commission as a two-star general in WWII for developing radar and imaging technology, and got a major chunk of RCA stock for his patents, as well as his own company. When his company was bought by ITT in 1950, he became a sizable shareholder there. He bailed out of both firms before they hit trouble in the 1970s, having made himself a billionaire in the process, earning the nickname 'the world's richest scientist'. He died of cancer in Salt Lake City in 1984.
I''m hoping the Franco-Canadian relationship helps move France toward commonwealth, & avoids war in Vietnam & Algeria.
Unfortunately no, Vietnam and Algeria still end up being God-awful messes.
The collapse of Britain leaves me wondering if Canadian companies don't end up owning major British companies like (frex) Rolls-Royce or something.
Read on.
Canadian investors are substantially involved at the remnants of British Leyland (now divided into Triumph Automobiles, Rover Group and Leyland Heavy Industries), Rolls-Royce merged with Orenda, they own the former coal mining companies outright and are massively invested in a lot of big-name British stocks. Canada's natural resource funds ITTL have something like six trillion dollars in the bank between them, and that money has to go somewhere. They'd rather spend it in the Commonwealth, too.
And what happens to German companies? Are they parcelled out to WAllies as reparations (booty by any other name....)?
Not much of this, largely because the Allies passed on a lot of the offers. About the only Canadian-involved example was BMW, as Native Canadian businessman Paul-Sebastian Neikan, who financied BMW's return to motorcycle and car production in the 1950s, and was the partner of the Quandt brothers when they consolidated BMW's stock in the early 1960s. The Neikan family today still owns 24% of BMW, and the family has been the chief distributors of BMW cars in Canada since then.
Paul-Sebastian's son Robert and daughter Krishelle were both enthusiastic racing drivers and sporting drivers, which had a direct effect on BMW's sporty car history, including the reviving of the BMW roadsters after the 507 with the 1966 BMW 508 and the sporty design and tuning of the "BMW New Class" cars of the 1960s and 1970s which evolved into the famed BMW 2002, and then the BMW 3 series. The cars were never built in Canada, though BMWs are quite common cars among Canada's higher echelons, and Canada's racing scene has never, ever, been with BMW involvement. Krishelle is also considered to be Canada's first great female racing driver, competing in BMWs in sports car racing on both sides of the Atlantic between 1957 and 1988, and making occasional races from then until retiring for fair in 2002.
I wasn't sure whether to put in Saskatoon or Regina, but that can be arranged....