USA owns Canada - What do the states look like?

I think Quebec would be more analogous to Louisiana or New Mexico. Language alone won't prevent statehood. Quebec would be bilingual with its own cultural identity at first, but Quebecois language/culture would probably decline under American rule due to standardized English education and cultural assimilation, and Quebec would be primarily Anglophone by today..

unlike new mexico and lousianna, french-canadians would have represented the majority of the population within their state unless it was forcefully split with chunks added to other states which, unless well planned, would result in *more* bilingual states.

The problem from my point of view extended beyond simple language. Assuming the annexation was done with the local population's approval, you have to remember that french-canadians had constitutional guaranteed to their own clerical controlled education and legal system (and post 1867 the veto or 1980, the notwithstanding clause) which, one would assume, they would want to retain. Since it's doubtful that US policy makers would accept to have a state with different protections or to have said protection extended to others, a "separate yet equal" sort of arrangement would seem like a safer bet.
 
Honestly the only place I don't see getting hit pretty hard in terms of population is Vancouver. Everything else in today's Canada is going to shrink pretty significantly, while otoh Seattle ends up not having much reason to exist.
 
Would be nice to see this mapped out on an 1866 North America map

It is my best try. Warning, the longitude may be iffy and don't mind Mexico (1865 map).

US Canada.png

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Why the squiggly between east and west Canada ? It only mention the 80' of longitude.

Nope, it actually says more.

It says:
ARTICLE IV

Territorial divisions are established as follows: (1) New Brunswick, with its present limits; (2) Nova Scotia, with the addition of Prince Edward Island; (3) Canada East, with the addition of Newfoundland and all territory east of longitude eighty degrees and south of Hudson's strait; (4) Canada West, with the addition of territory south of Hudson's bay and between longitude eighty degrees and longitude ninety degrees;

The bill clearly refers to the then existing entities of Canada East and Canada West and these entities already had a border (the squiggly) from at least 1862:

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So the bill uses those existing entities and adds territory to each of them, with the territory being added based on a border extending from the then existing border north to the Hudson Bay along the eighty degrees of longitude line.
 
Okay, just saying, combining Quebec and Newfoundland (the two most culturally distinct bits of Canada, who hate each other) into one enormous state seems like a really bad idea.
 
So the bill uses those existing entities and adds territory to each of them, with the territory being added based on a border extending from the then existing border north to the Hudson Bay along the eighty degrees of longitude line.

Ok, i understand !
Thanks :)
 
Okay, just saying, combining Quebec and Newfoundland (the two most culturally distinct bits of Canada, who hate each other) into one enormous state seems like a really bad idea.

Yeah, keeping them separate would be a better idea. Uniting Quebec and New Brunswick would be a more realistic proposal XD
 
Yeah, keeping them separate would be a better idea. Uniting Quebec and New Brunswick would be a more realistic proposal XD

Not exactly. The small Acadian/Gaelic population wouldn't benefit from any combination with a ruling capital in Quebec since they'd be mostly ignored by the bigger city populations and valley farmers. The economy is just too different to make it workable.

Combining the two Maritime provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (PEI would probably benefit from being added to this but they would pitch a fit about it) is a much more reasonable solution to the economic troubles they might face.

I seriously doubt Newfoundland could ever have been enticed into becoming a US state short of military conquest so they'd be right out. They weren't even very receptive to the idea of a Maritime Union OTL.
 
I seriously doubt Newfoundland could ever have been enticed into becoming a US state short of military conquest so they'd be right out. They weren't even very receptive to the idea of a Maritime Union OTL.

Righto. They didn't even join Canada until a sham vote in 1948.
 
Righto. They didn't even join Canada until a sham vote in 1948.

IIRC the closest they ever came to joining Canada without a significant nudge from Britain was in 1869 when two years of declining catches in the fishery pushed them towards poor economic straights. Then just when they started the negotiations there was an exceptionally good year for catches and the economy turned around so they dropped the whole thing.
 
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