If America annexes Canada, do they end up with Alaska?

From what I have heard, one of the main reasons that the Russians sold Alaska to the Americans was that they could not defend it from the British, who they had poor relations with. If the USA annexes Canada earlier somehow, would they sell it? America would have plenty of frozen land to settle, and had good relations with Russia during the time period? So, do you think that America would buy it?
 
Yes - Russia needed the money (even reportedly offering part of Siberia at one point) and the US would not risk the UK etc. (or maybe later Japan) from getting it instead.
 
Well, the UK couldn't realistically get it if they did not border it.

I don't think it was the land border that the Russians were worried about. Britain could go ahead and try to march an army through the Rocky mountains, Yukon, and endless miles of cold, rough terrain with no real roads or established paths to follow. But I think they knew that would only result in a lot of dead Canadians.

Most of the Russian settlements in Alaska were along or near the coast, and it's a coastal attack that they would have been vulnerable to. An Alaska that doesn't share a border with Canada is still just as vulnerable to British attack. Maybe only a little less so, but only because Britain doesn't have Vancouver in this scenario to resupply from.
 
Prior to 1867, Canada referred to the narrow land along the St. Lawrence to the downstream Great Lakes.

Canada as the unified political entity we know today does not exist until 1867, the same year as the Alaska purchase from Russia. So, it's chicken or egg, which one you taking first?

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As stated before Russia was strapped for cash and the Great Game was in full swing, and at the end of the day Russia was more worried about the British muscling its way into central Asia than it was about that frozen moneypit of a colony it had
 
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What he said makes perfect sense if he meant something like Montgomery's expedition or the War of 1812 being successful rather than something conquering it after 1812.
 
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Are we thinking all of Canada at first? And would the price for Alaska change depending upon when it was sold? I am thinking the Americans would want to get it at a bargain if they already have the upper Oregon Country or Rupert's Land they may think it is too much. Or the Southerners demand they balance out the purchase with grabbing Cuba or some Central American states in order to balance things out in the Senate.
 
Are we thinking all of Canada at first? And would the price for Alaska change depending upon when it was sold? I am thinking the Americans would want to get it at a bargain if they already have the upper Oregon Country or Rupert's Land they may think it is too much. Or the Southerners demand they balance out the purchase with grabbing Cuba or some Central American states in order to balance things out in the Senate.
Yes. The Americans conquered all of Canada.
 
If somehow this seizure of Canada does not butterfly away the Great Game, then Russia has all the same reasons to sell it and maybe even more.

- it's still an indefensible money sink
- they don't want the British to take it
- the USA holding Canada might get some fishy Manifest Destiny ideas about it, so it's better to sell it before they take it for free
- the US doesn't necessarily need it, but they wouldn't want anyone else to have it (also, Manifest Destiny: Tundra Edition)
 
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