Quebec Independent 1770s-80s.

This always made me wonder. Quebec, successfully taken from the British in 1775. Since it's a different culture in a more xenophobic time for Americans, what happens to them once the Treaty of Paris is signed? Kept, which would be controversial since they were Catholic and French speaking, or spun off into their own state?
 
The republic of Quebec would be interesting to see - parochial, backwards, archaic. Think Mexico without the liberalism and democracy. :eek: They still have the bloody feudal system!

I can see them turning into an aristocratic and repressive state pretty quick. Probably a yankee puppet, too.
 
The republic of Quebec would be interesting to see - parochial, backwards, archaic. Think Mexico without the liberalism and democracy. :eek: They still have the bloody feudal system!

I can see them turning into an aristocratic and repressive state pretty quick. Probably a yankee puppet, too.

You must not like the Quebecois much. I mean, liberalism and democracy came pretty slowly to Mexico, after all...

Yes, an independant Quebec would be pretty backwards, but with Canadian and American influences on all sides, they would probably shape up pretty quick culturally. Also, Newfoundland & Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, etc. would form into a different Dominion than the west of Canada.

And yes, this Quebec probably would end up a puppet state of the US, complete with settlers moving in and fighting with the locals.
 
You must not like the Quebecois much. I mean, liberalism and democracy came pretty slowly to Mexico, after all...

Yes, an independant Quebec would be pretty backwards, but with Canadian and American influences on all sides, they would probably shape up pretty quick culturally. Also, Newfoundland & Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, etc. would form into a different Dominion than the west of Canada.

And yes, this Quebec probably would end up a puppet state of the US, complete with settlers moving in and fighting with the locals.

I like Quebec! But in 1775 it was a gawdaful feudal mess! It's like the walking, talking example of what ancien regime France was like if you dragged it into the 19th century. I'd put them as Mexico, yes, but poorer and more backwards.

...And how does an independant republic have more outside influence than a Loyalist dumping-ground that's part of the largest empire on earth? Sure, the British left them mostly alone (they abolished seignurage in 1854, for goodness' sake) but if the States gives them independence they would at least have to pay lip service to its sovereignty.

Finally, I would think not a lot of settlers would want to come to "a rocky desert stuffed full of papists".
 
What if a high ranking Heugonaut was married into the royal family, and then sent to Quebec to create the Grand Duchy? It would probably lead to the creation of Duchy of Nova Scotia, and the Kingdom of Canada.
 
Was ever possible to have a brother of Louis XVI being made king of an independent Quebec, or of Quebec going back to France completely?
 
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