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A while ago, @Sevarics posted a thread asking what might have happened had the French had been kicked out of North America (mainly Canada, Acadia, and Louisiana). It has since withered on the vine, so I'll ask this question again.

Assume the British have a few more ships to spare from their titanomachia in Europe and the Battle of Quebec happens some 40 years earlier. The French lose all of New France (those three territories I mentioned, except maybe St. Pierre and Miquelon) to the British, who also gain Spanish Florida for good measure.

Now a couple of questions:
  • The Canadien population is far smaller in 1715 than it was in 1755. The relatively small population and lots of available land would probably precipitate a mass zerg-rush of potential Anglic settlers [1]. Would this make something like the Acadian Expulsion possible across the entirety of (former) French North America?
  • Assuming the Expulsion does take place (and is extended to all Gallic settlers), where might the exiled Frenchmen go? Would Britain simply just spread them out across their existing colonies [2] (thereby ensuring their assimilation) or just chuck them out, either to France or to other places in North America (like Spanish Texas)? Or perhaps to another place entirely (like Australia, perhaps)?
  • With the French threat gone, do the existing colonies [2] even develop a separate "American" identity? Assuming they rebel, would any of their new colonies take part, and might Britain simply go colonize elsewhere (perhaps repeating the same process again with the French in Australia, assuming they make it there)?
[1] After all, AFAIK the War of Jenkin's Ear might be butterflied completely in this world, meaning New England (the regions close to Canada and Acadia) would be more populated, increasing the potential settler base.
[2] i.e. the Thirteen Colonies that would become the United States
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