PC: Portuguese Newfoundland

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Not really. Once you strip away some pines and find out that you can actually grow things in the soil, you might as well start with a small-scale colony. Give it some time, and soon we could make Newfie jokes - but for their dialect of Portuguese instead. ;):D
Also, the Portuguese were not that much into settler colonies, they had huge problems to settle Brazil, and in Brazil you could get rich.
 
Not really. Once you strip away some pines and find out that you can actually grow things in the soil, you might as well start with a small-scale colony. Give it some time, and soon we could make Newfie jokes - but for their dialect of Portuguese instead. ;):D

And if Portugal manages to remain an independent state, then why not an independent lusophone state in Newfoundland?

In a few places, maybe. A good many outports MADE their own soil from rotted seaweed and fish bits.

And that is something that is still used today to turn dune fields into farming land(in the provinces of Beira Litoral and Northern Estremadura), and it is used since the first dynasty.

Also, the Portuguese were not that much into settler colonies, they had huge problems to settle Brazil, and in Brazil you could get rich.


True, Portugal have problems in settling continental land masses, but islands?
Just look to the Azores, Madeira, Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncepe.
All of them wore quickly settled and in a short period all wore sending settlers to other parts of the empire because the land couldn't support more people.
 
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