Plausibility check, Maritimes as part of the UK

Is there any way that the Canadian Maritimes along with Newfoundland and Labrador to become part of the UK? Any POD from the late 1700s on can apply.
 
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There is one in the TL in my sig...I'll get round to writing more some day (after my doctorate from the looks of things :(). Summary: after an earlier divergence in BNA, Canada joins the US in revolting from Britain, but Britain hangs on to Maine as well as the Maritimes. Loyalists go there, a threatening USA allied to revolutionary France two decades later makes Britain 'draw a line in the sand' to incorporate the Maritimes and Ireland in an act of Union. The Union Jack above has the blue on white saltire of Nova Scotia in addition to St Patricks cross.

I do think you need very pressing political considerations for it to occur, as the distance from the UK would make them want autonomy in most circumstances.
 
I like this idea, been thinkiing about it myself, with perhaps some of the Caribbean islands as part of the UK as well...
 
Nugax, don't mean to be rude but that flag does something wierd to my eyes. It's not a bad flag as such, it just has a strange effect on me, does anyone else get the same response?
 

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It'd be interesting to see more colonies that are like what French Guiana claims to be, that is, an equal, integrated part of the European mainland. Perhaps in a TL where the US fragments (after the Articles of Confederation most likely) could have this. Florida as an integral part of Spain, Maritimes as part of UK, Haiti and Louisiana as part of France...
 
The last annexation to UKoGBaI motherland was Ireland, in 1801. UKoGBaNI still has colonies but those, from Channel Isles and Man to Pitcairn are not regarded as parts of UK proper, and are not represented in Westminster Parliament.

In 19th century, was there any feeling in UKoGBAI that any colonies should be annexed in the sense of getting formal representation in Westminster? Scotland and Ireland had, in their Union, kept their laws, superior courts and, in case of Ireland, Privy Council and Viceregal administration while getting seats in Westminster Parliament. There was not yet an example of a colony having both a local legislature and representation in a superior legislature - the rebels had had in since Continental Congress, and OTL Canada was to get in in 1867, so considering the different Unions with Scotland and Ireland, having an Imperial Parliament might not be exclusive of colonial legislatures and laws...
 
If the Maritimes are integrated, we'd proably see places like Malta, Gibraltar, St. Helena etc. being integrated as well.

This I would agree with, however, the fact remains that Britain has always had a decentralised, federal sort of Empire. It was the French and Portuguese who centralised power, hence why Guadeloupe and New Caledonia are considered as much a part of metropolitan France as Lyon or Marseillaise. If I remember correctly, the Maltese Labour Party tried to bring Malta into the United Kingdom as a constituent nation in the 1960's, when the Wilson Government refused they switched their stance to one calling for full scale independence.

Going as later as we can, I suppose that if the Great Depression hits Newfoundland even harder than in OTL you could see the nation brought under full scale rule from Whitehall in a similar way to how it already was. If the economy remains too shaky post-war to become part of Canada again, you could see it remain so until demand from within the Maritimes becomes too great to ignore and we see them become another part of the United Kingdom with a level of devolution similar to what then existed in Northern Ireland.
 
I would say that it is considerably more likely that Newfoundland (including Labrador) become part of the UK than the Maritimes as a group.
 
I would say that it is considerably more likely that Newfoundland (including Labrador) become part of the UK than the Maritimes as a group.

Hence why I focused on Newfoundland around the time that it was returned to the control of London. The entire region is perhaps to diverse to see as part of the United Kingdom without some serious butterflies.
 
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