Let's assume the American Revolution is peaceably resolved or averted in TTL. The colonists' grievances are addressed and as popularly assumed, a sort of dominion status takes form. It will naturally have Atlantic Canada and one assumes the OTL western lands of the USA and Canada fill up like OTL.
What will happen to the province of Quebec? Will it be assilimated into the greater Anglo-American culture? In 1860 Quebec City's English-speaking population reached a high of 40%. If the most Francophone place of the province had a population that high, then one can only assume the traditionally more-Anglophone-friendly areas of the Outenais, the Eastern Townships, the Gaspe Peninsula, and Montreal city had even higher English-speaking peoples in them than today.
And the key is that is in OTL Canada, and it was obviously even less populated than it is today.
So what will happen if you suddenly have the much more populated English-speaking subdivisions of the country to the south-New York and New England and the like-suddenly open up for migration from the get-go? We're talking potentially hundreds of thousands of new Anglos in the province, not to mention thousands of OTL American immigrants heading into Quebec province and taking up English themselves.
Will Quebec become a northern Louisiana here or will it maintain a seperate identity? Will it even be part of a British North America? As I said in a post a long time ago, I can see Montreal becoming a French New York of sorts (completely Americanized save for a few historical traces to the past), so I'm wondering on the northern section of the province. Could Quebec still be primarily French in language and culture or will it become a northern New Orleans of a sort-recognizably American and English-speaking, with French a significant but still minor subculture (if a proud, celebrated one)?
EDIT: While similar to a 'Quebec in the USA', let me stress: this is instead Quebec's fate in a LOYAL North America still tied to Britain, not an independent nation.
What will happen to the province of Quebec? Will it be assilimated into the greater Anglo-American culture? In 1860 Quebec City's English-speaking population reached a high of 40%. If the most Francophone place of the province had a population that high, then one can only assume the traditionally more-Anglophone-friendly areas of the Outenais, the Eastern Townships, the Gaspe Peninsula, and Montreal city had even higher English-speaking peoples in them than today.
And the key is that is in OTL Canada, and it was obviously even less populated than it is today.
So what will happen if you suddenly have the much more populated English-speaking subdivisions of the country to the south-New York and New England and the like-suddenly open up for migration from the get-go? We're talking potentially hundreds of thousands of new Anglos in the province, not to mention thousands of OTL American immigrants heading into Quebec province and taking up English themselves.
Will Quebec become a northern Louisiana here or will it maintain a seperate identity? Will it even be part of a British North America? As I said in a post a long time ago, I can see Montreal becoming a French New York of sorts (completely Americanized save for a few historical traces to the past), so I'm wondering on the northern section of the province. Could Quebec still be primarily French in language and culture or will it become a northern New Orleans of a sort-recognizably American and English-speaking, with French a significant but still minor subculture (if a proud, celebrated one)?
EDIT: While similar to a 'Quebec in the USA', let me stress: this is instead Quebec's fate in a LOYAL North America still tied to Britain, not an independent nation.