As always I ama strong advocate of Quebec, take my tl "Vive le Canada" where abit forced immigration to Quebec settles the St. Lawrence area quickly and encourages westward settlement to the Great Lakes and Mississippi. The St. Lawrence-Great-Lakes-Mississippi-Louisiana route is something of a super highway allowing much quicker and better settlement by immigrants. This being much different to the slower US expansion which had to go overland and through the Appalachain mountains largely.