In my Time Line (Going to be Novel) "The Maple Leaf Forever", Canada becomes totally independent from the United Kingdom in 1867. Confederation goes better than it did in OTL, and Canada gets Prince Arthur as "King of Canada".
Anyhow. Canada becomes more powerful than in OTL, not by a fair amount. Nothing ASB really but, were in a better place.
But I was wondering what other Monarchs would visit Canada (aside from the British ones)? The Prussians/Germans, French, Russians? With Canada's growing power and total control over it's foreign policy, what friends and allies would we attract?
P.S. Yes, I'm also very sure the leaders of the USA would likely be very invested in making friends with the new, potential power to their north.
State visits before WWII were important affairs because the required so much time to be dedicated to them. State visits by monarchs to the Americas required too much time due to the length of travel by ocean liner required. This also required a regency be in place to act on behalf of the absentee monarch. In 1888, Pedro II of Brazil was in Europe for so long that he left his daughter Crown Princess Isabel as regent.
The first visit by a future European monarch to the Americas appears to have been that of Prince William (later William IV) to Halifax in 1786 as a lieutenant of the royal navy. Edward VII whilst Prince of Wales would undertake an official visit of Canada and the United States in 1860.
The first reigning European monarch to visit the Americas was Queen Maria I of Portugal upon her arrival in Brazil in 1808, though this was due to Napoleon's invasion of Portugal. King João VI was subsequently crowned in Brazil in 1816, and his son would become Pedro I of Brazil and IV of Portugal, only returning to Portugal in 1830. He spent most of his adult life in Brazil and his daughter, Queen Maria II of Portugal was born in Brazil in 1819, and arrived in Portugal in 1828. King Carlos I was to undertake a visit to Brazil in 1909, but was assassinated in 1908.
In 1874 and in 1881, King Kalakaua took a tour of the United States, and in 1876 Pedro II of Brazil also visited the United States.
In 1913, Prince Albert I of Monaco visited the United States and met with President Wilson, being the first reigning European sovereign to visit that country.
King Albert of Belgium visited the United States in 1919 and was the first reigning European king to visit that country.
The first British reigning British Monarch to visit the Americas was King George VI in 1939 when he toured Canada and the United States.
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands visited in the United States during the Nazi occupation of her country in 1942 and visited Canada as well in 1943, becoming the first Dutch sovereign to visit the Americas.
King George II of the Hellenes visited the US in 1942, and this was followed by a state visit by King Paul I in 1953.
King Frederick IX of Denmark visited Greenland in 1952, and I suppose that could be considered the visit to the Americas by a Danish Sovereign. In 1960, he visited the United States.
The first visit by a pontiff to the Americas occurred in 1965 when Pope Paul VI visited New York.
In 1967, King Harald V of Norway visited Brazil, Chile and Argentina, this was followed by a visit to the US in 1968.
King Juan Carlos I of Spain visited the Dominican Republic, United States, Colombia and Venezuela in 1976, becoming the first visit by a reigning Spanish sovereign to the Americas.
King Carl XVI became the first Swedish sovereign to visit the US in 1976 and in 1981, but these were only private visits. His first state visit to the Americas was Brazil in 1984.
No reigning German, French, Italian, or Russian monarch ever visited the Americas as sovereign. Before the advent of jet travel, European heads of state by and large limited their visits to Europe, and even these visits were considered important.
The first state visit by a German President to the US was by President Heuss of West Germany in 1958. The first French President was to visit the US was in 1960, by an Italian head of state was in 1964.