United Kingdom of the North Atlantic?

Do you see any plausible possibility that the United Kingdom and Canada will become a single nation? I had thought about how the administrative capital could be moved from London to Newfoundland as a gesture to show that Canada is not a colony.

No matter the circumstances that lead to this but the if it would be plausible to be at some point.

P.S: Sorry for my bad english, i am chilean
 

Thomas1195

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Do you see any plausible possibility that the United Kingdom and Canada will become a single nation? I had thought about how the administrative capital could be moved from London to Newfoundland as a gesture to show that Canada is not a colony.

No matter the circumstances that lead to this but the if it would be plausible to be at some point.

P.S: Sorry for my bad english, i am chilean
I think you need a pre 1900 POD
 
Could this include Iceland, Greenland and Norway?
Highly unlikely in any form except a common market sense. Unlike Canada and the UK, there's no common culture between Iceland, Norway, and the Anglos, which would make cooperation rather difficult, let alone a united government.

This is definitely something for a pre-1900 POD, most likely a united Scandinavian empire.
 
It would be easiest with a pre-1900 POD, but could be conceivably done up until WW1. The house of commons could well move there in WW2, but I doubt it would be a permanent deal.
 

Zen9

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No I distinctly recall something about Norway joining the Commonwealth or some such after '45
 
Two big post-1900 issues

1) WW1 greatly weakened pan-British identity in the Dominions
2) The British siding with the Americans over the Canadians in the 1903 Alaska Boundary agreement did quite a bit to peeve the Canadians


You could pretty easily integrate Newfoundland and Labrador into the UK, I think. If you gave them the option, they probably would have gone with UK integration.

There are no significant cities in Newfoundland. Halifax is a more likely capital, but even then it's a pretty exposed capital.


Perhaps if a war breaks out over one of the Venezuela Crises and thus there are a very large number of British troops in Canada, it would strengthen British identity in Canada and result in calls for formal unification.
 
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