Immigration in British North America

Similar to Australia and Canada, i.e. if you're white and you're willing to at least pretend to be loyal you're welcome.
 
Probably a lot of Germans

Also a lot of Irish, Scots etc - the people who went to Canada might be attracted further South

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Probably a bit lower than the immigration to the US due to the British being a tiny amount better than the US on dealing with Native peoples (still jerks, just a bit more patient).
 
Pretty similar to OTL.
Its often forgotten that the UK itself was the major emigration destination for those fleeing political persecution, seeking freedom of speech/religion, yadda yadda.
The US was the major destination for those who wanted cheap plentiful land. Politics rarely had anything at all to do with a decision to move to the US.
 
Pretty similar to OTL.
Its often forgotten that the UK itself was the major emigration destination for those fleeing political persecution, seeking freedom of speech/religion, yadda yadda.
The US was the major destination for those who wanted cheap plentiful land. Politics rarely had anything at all to do with a decision to move to the US.
Mostly in the early days. You dont get .uch of that by the 1840s, which is when immigration to the US really became significant.

And, yes, LOTS of people came to canada and austalia for land and/or a fresh start. Much the same reason people came to the states.
 

katchen

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If England had held onto the Colonies, it wouldn't have bothered settling Australia. No need to stop sending convicts to the American colonies. The Dutch would have kept it (it was claimed by the Dutch as New Holland) and it might be Dutch settled or part of Indonesia or Japan or Germany might have gotten it. Or France. France might have settled New Zealand.
 
If England had held onto the Colonies, it wouldn't have bothered settling Australia. No need to stop sending convicts to the American colonies. The Dutch would have kept it (it was claimed by the Dutch as New Holland) and it might be Dutch settled or part of Indonesia or Japan or Germany might have gotten it. Or France. France might have settled New Zealand.
Not the Dutch. If the Dutch had cared for it, it would have done anything with it in the years since they discovered it. I find it more likely the British still settle it or perhaps more likely the French.
 

katchen

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The French were terrible at settling their colonies. They worried too much about depopulating France. Which is why they had too many people on the land in the French countryside, fragmented landholdings and were never able to outnumber the Arabs in Algeria despite starting out with a much higher population. Or settle Madagascar.
The Germans might have been able to settle Australia, but Bismarck started late. So I would say if Australia stayed empty until the 1890s, the Japanese would likely buy it from the Dutch. They would do the most with it.
 
I'd see Australia following a fairly OTL trajectory only with a lot less people. There's nobody else who would be interested in it, it has little to offer.
The American colonies were getting pretty 'civilized', they wouldn't like the idea of being a criminal dumping ground for much longer.
 

katchen

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After 1763, the British were pushing the settlement of Florida and Nova Scotia at either end of the Continental colonies. They forbade settlement of the interior because they did not think that they could control interior North America. That did not stop the Scots-Irish who would get off the boat and move as far inland into and across the Appalachians as possible before putting down roots.
I have read books that suggest that the British backed into the American Revolution more or less by accident over the Boston Tea Party the same way they backed into World War I and that the crisis might have been averted. I suspect so. I also suspect that there would have been a bigger crisis over Scots-Irish settlement of interior North America that would have led to a revolution anyway and would probably have come to a head around the time of the Napoleonic Wars when the UK would have needed the taxes and service of the Colonials the most. Then or shortly thereafter when the Spanish colonies broke away. That would have been interesting. (American colonies remain colonies until 1820s, then have a revolution at the same time Spanish colonies do).
 
I think they will get alot of protestant immigrants whereas the Catholics would have to look elsewhere.
 
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