PC/WI: BRITISH post 1800 "US" Immigration goes to Australia/Canada/NZ instead?

WILDGEESE

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According to sources ofrf the net, somewhere in the region of 4 million British people emmigrated rto the USA in the years 1800 to 1900.

What if all the British post 1800 immigration to North America went instead to Australia, Canada and New Zealand?

What possible events could cause this? Ideas please!

Would both countries be able to cope with this immigration surge?

Regards filers
 
I suppose that very poor U.S and U.K relations could lead to that. Since Britain and the U.S could mutually agree they don't want it to happen and decide to discourage it.
 
Well, if you somehow manages to prevent the westward expension of United States in the XIXth, you'd have a lesser incitative for immigrating there in first place. Most BRITISH emigration may end up in other places.
 
What if all the British post 1800 immigration to North America went instead to Australia, Canada and New Zealand?

Well, some of that Canadian immigration will end up in the United States. It might be easier to have the UK not control Canada at all.
 
Have the US become nastily nativist and refuse immigrants (especially from Britain). Perhaps as a result of a nastier War of 1812, perhaps the US is locked in east of the Mississippi.

If the US is a smaller, poorer place, fewer immigrants will want to come, as well.
 
What exactly do you mean by British in this context, are you talking about the Irish population as well? If so you wouldn't have the Irish-American relationship either which would be interesting post 1900 me thinks.
 
Still need, as always to find a solid economic reason for say NZ to keep those new immigrants. Like most colonies, people moved on when recession hit. Australia, back home, the US etc and indeed the other way
 
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