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Thanks. Well, the Freaking Amazing map by Bmuro and Kosta are the most updated. Though, one of the maps I did does show outlines of Province if you look closely.

Thank you for your kind words, and thank you for allowing me to write a tale or two within your universe here, friend.
 
"Just two more days until Fraternity Day and across Canada and Santo Domingo people are getting ready for celebrations. Canadien citizens descended from Domingian settlers either make the trip to the island nation to visit family or they re-tell the stories of the struggle for freedom. In a show of commemoration for their long standing friendship, Consul Larimie of Canada and Consul Obin of Santo Domingo will be meeting in Port-Au-Prince where the two Consuls will tour the city's historic sites and view a theater showing of the 1960 Award Winning Movie "Dreams of Freedom" which commemorates the War of Independence for Santo Domingo.

Celebrations on August 15th are expected to last all day with predictions of sunny weather..." -Montreal Channel 56 News Broadcasting

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Planning a bigger update but I just wanted to mul over this a tad.

British-Canadien Relations in the Early 19th Century

Britain often enough loves to imagine itself as a player in a grand game of chess or perhaps a spider spinning a political web the likes of which none have ever seen before. By design or happenstance the relationship between Canada and Great Britain can easily be described as an alliance of Realpolitik, perhaps the most startling one there ever was.

After all, when they sided with Canada against the French they were supporting a French descended, evenly Catholic, Republic that aimed to cut into their own colonial interests eventually. The fact was though that Britain needed an ally that could deny, deny, deny its rivals on the North American continent. Aiding and abetting Canada against their upstart former colonists and the Swedes not only cut them from expanding into the heartland of North America but also themselves. Which suited the British just fine not having to worry again about managing colonists that moved faster then their officials could spew restrictions. During the Louisiana War and the Wider Napoleonic Wars we see that Britain willingly flung any claim to Louisiana and allowed the Canadiens to occupy the territory while taking the fuss from the Anti Napoleon, Spanish Cortes. This moved Canada into a much larger border relationship with Spain which would swiftly occupy the two powers and definitely tie up the later much to Britain's delight in the Post-Independent order.

The matter of the Hudson Bay/Colbert Land claim though was for this time frame a hot dispute between Britain and Canada as interests battled out for control of the Fur Trade across the Frozen North and to the Pacific Ocean. If it had not been for Napoleon it would have been very foreseeable for the Canadiens to attempt to seize their lost territory and war with Great Britain. Who knows what would have happened. Obviously Canada would have re taken the land at first but the British repercussions would have devastated Canada's growth over the next few decades as the British would have hit Canadien ports and possibly even overthrown the Santo Domingo government which would have set the clock back for the republic and destroyed its integrity!

How fortunate everyone were.

Still, a true 'friendship' between Canada and Britain did not truly develop until the end of the century as infected by the democratic bug, Britain's reforms brought it into like minded nature with Canada. Until then the British were quite happy with their frienemy in Canada. Quite willing to shake hands with them while whispering uncouth comments under their breath.
 
Paris, Ontario, United Provinces of Canada
1813


"What do you think of Paris, eh?" The Man in the Black Hat asked of his companion.

"From what I can see?" The Man with the Brown Coat replied and looked around the tavern. It was late, but it had to be something special about the tavern itself that made the whole place seem even darker and dingier then it should have been.

"From what you have seen!" Black Hat grinned and tipped his glass of red wine to his lips, "Perhaps even what you have tasted or smelled!"

"This red wine is the best I can think of Paris at the moment, my friend. Still, I am surprised that this place would have this good Bordeaux Red. I am surprised even more how much I have come to like drinking it over the years." Brown Coat took the time to pour himself another glass.

"Hahaha. Well, I can tell you that there is more to Paris then meets the eye. It is a nice sized town and the people are quite nice. It is too bad that it will never reach the size and importance of those on the lakes. Ah, well." Black Hat shrugged at the futility of it.

"True, but come now old man. I know you, and you are getting at something that you don't wish to show me...until it is right before my eyes at least."

"Ah, so true and so hurtful. Have I really become predictable in my old age? Ah, well. Tell me, young man, for the eyes of this geezer have become blind and useless, what do you notice on that beam there?" Black Hat pointed to one of the central wooden supports that help up the room.

"Hmmm..." Brown Coat hummed as he squinted, "I see a simple framed painting...no...a framed poster. It says 'Première Partie Canadienne'? Canadian First Party? What is this now?" Brown Coat leveled an inquisitive gaze at his associate.

"Ah, well it's something of a little mess. A mess that would have similarly been left when Pandora opened her little box or if one swept several cats around in a bag and then let them out..." Black Hat smiled wryly as he pulled out from his coat a pamphlet. He slowly and carefully brought a pair of worn glasses to his face as he began to read in a dramatic, mocking tone.

"Canadiens! Proud Sons and Daughters of Gallic Blood! Stand Up! Stand Against Anglo Oppression! Stand Against Indian Savages! Stand Against..."

"Alright, alright." Brown Coat waved his hand and took another drink from his glass, a much deeper one then he had before. "I don't need to hear the rest of that."

"Aha!" Black Hat raised a finger as a matter of point, "You don't need to, but you likely will. At least around here. These 'First Canadiens' are planning on holding a rally in Paris and even are talking of sending someone off to the National Assembly come elections."

"Humph. Don't tell me you actually expect these vile..."

"No, from what I have gathered the Firsters are already quite unpopular with their slogans in these parts...but as you can see. This presents...something of an issue..." Black Hat let his words trail off.

"It would seem that parties...gangs...clubs...are starting to form. After all, it's not as if the 'Founding Fathers' will remain on the political scene forever to keep people from following their natural instincts to gang up on one another. Which was something I wanted to avoid..." Rene Canada, now Former Governor of Illinois, rolled his eyes and gave a exaggerated shrug, "If you had just waited a few more years and set up a few political dynasties..."

"Bah! Dynasties! What are we aristocrats? No, no. While I was worried about something such as this..." Guy Richard, former Governor of Ontario, paused for dramatic effect, "I feel it is better that we are both alive to confront such tensions within the United Provinces. Look at those Americans and their President Wheely!"

"I'd rather not. The man is lucky as sin that God gave mankind the ability to see another across vast distances or technology has progressed to make that possible through a looking glass." Rene blanched and sipped his wine.

"The point being." Guy interrupted Rene's dramatic gagging, "Canada will be going through some...growing pains as it tried to grow and find itself. The War with Napoleon is by no means over. Imagine if one of these groups managed to gain enough influence to abandon our alliance with the British?"

"Nothing, good. Though you say groups. The political background is divided ten times over! We are going to see national parties, regional parties, and provincial parties. Too much division and nothing will get done." Rene leaned forward toward his old friend. He knew that now Guy would reveal the whole reason for their political conversation. It was an often enough used tactic by Guy to get him loose enough so that they could think into each other's mind sets.

"Too true, nothing would get done. No agreements, no funding, no anything but plenty of nothing! No, what I propose is that we brings many of these groups together! A large enough boat so that these people like the Firsters will be drowned out by a multitude of opinions. I suggest we build some coalitions..."
 
Formation of the United Provinces Two Coalition System

The basis for Canada's Two Coalition system, sometimes Reffered as the Axis System or the Parallel System, began shortly after the Succession Crisis which resulted in the formation of numerous political parties and clubs throughout Canada. Rene Canada and Guy Richard, two of Canada's founding fathers, are regarding as beginning this system themselves following a series of disputes and public letters exchanged between each other. Gradually calling for the formation of like minded political members into political coalitions. What is special about would become Canada's system is that through their initial political dealings he Two Coalition system formed on a national and state level.

At the national level the political coalitions formed into the Whites (Right leaning) and Blues (Left leaning) whose membership includes members of the national government such as representatives to the National Assembly and Governors. They act in concert most of the time on general voteing actions and elections of Supreme Court members and Consul candidates.

What is interesting is that on a provincial level the number of political parties are much more diverse and primarily regional based. As the primary concern of this level of politics is electing representatives to the local legislature and the Governors themselves and generally they are not as aligned on the political spectrum as national political concerns but primarily on a more local level. That these local political parties often enough switch support from Blues and Whites has prevented a level of political entrenchment found in other political systems as a basis of support is much wider based. Especially given that the electoral concerns of the electorate are with their governors and not a single president. So a person will be more focused on supporting a candidate for Governor who has in mind the concerns of the East Quebec Reform Party or the Trois du Rivière Steel Workers Party rather then if they belong to the Whites or Blues, those concerned are saved for Senators and Delagates.

Primarily this is achieved through the basis of Provincial Voteing on the county-parish level which in itself is focused on population centers rather then large swaths of the Provinces. This also has lead to rather strict community zoning laws aimed at preventing lopsided electoral districts from creation of new towns and communities-especially during the period of westward settlement.

Regarding the Whites and Blues the nature of the Coalition leadership is often a tell tale sign of where the power of the government lies. The title of Coalition Head sliding between Executive Branch and Legislative Branch throughout Canadien history.
 
Developments of the Canadien Republic: A History
By Maurice Arbour


A flag left out in the rain and sun will eventually fade from wear and use. In this we can find an ample enough metaphor to explain the turn of the Founding or Fondation Period of 1785-1811 (Precede by the Genesee Period of 1775-1785) to the Early Republic or the Reforme Period of 1811-1846.

The Founding Period is was for the Canadiens a period of trial and tribulation as well as the expansion of their state as well as the foundation of many national myths. The trials of this period can be characterized into a threat of body and spirit.

The threat of body namely being the wars of this period, first the Mississippi War and the Napoleonic War as well as several minor conflicts such as the Santo Domingo Liberation and the ongoing Missouri Wars. The nature of these wars were extremely tied into the national character of Canada, which would feed into a national myths of superiority. Even before the foundation of the United Provinces the character of the land as being a right of Canadiens was found through allotments of the Sieguier system as well as the rapid settlement of the Pays. Louisiane was even more extremely tied as it was seen by the Francophone Republic to unite the French-speaking peoples of North America as well as spreading their liberal brand of democracy.

Their trials of spirit were played in by their political trials. The first of which being their very liberal spread of their democratic spirit, which brought them into conflict with the established elitist of their society as well as their colonial neighbors. Which in ways fueled their obstinate desire to take Louisiane and what would be heated arguments with Britain over Colbertland. The more describe conflicts would of course be the Succession Crisis and the subsequent development of political coalitions. It would be these two conflicts in particular would end the Foundation Period as it shattered the 'Honeymoon' of the post-Independance era. Many of the leading figures from the Canadien Revolution would either die or lead into increasing political diversity and confrontation.

In the Napoleonic War we find these two external and internal conflicts combined. Following the French Revolution in France the opinions of most Canadiens was initially overwhelmingly positive! The Motherland was accepting the founding principles of Life, Liberty, and Fraternity that many Canadiens had fought for and preached. Letters of correspondence were exchanged frequently between leading figures of the French Revolution. D'Arles corresponded with Necker and several Royal Democrats and Luc-Andre and Guy Richard were closely in contact with La Fayette over the developing National Party. Notably even former Canadien loyalists and landowners who had fled to France were very active in funding the Right Wing and counter-revolutionary groups. Future Governors Armande Lavtrue and Percevel Fontaine as well as future Speaker Noel Pette were among several hundred Canadiens who would travel to France in support of the Revolution, joining the Jacobin Clubs, of which several were established in Canada.

The first souring of relations began with the 1791 legislation designed to restrict émigrés from leaving France, of which several Canadiens were jailed. The subsequent Santo Domingo revolution with involvement of the AFS and the jailing of Canadien diplomat Jean-Cartier Delacrouiex quickly followed and broke off official French Relations until the takeover by the Committee of Public Safety whereupon relations briefly resumed before the subsequent Reign of Terror once more dropped relations. A very stinging point of relations throughout this period was the refusal of Consul Luc-Andre to declare war on the offensive powers that invaded France, Luc-Andre was unwilling to bring Canada into the conflict primarily over concerns of that Canadien support would lead to war with Great Britain and subsequent fallout from the Santo Domingo Affair. The Reign of Terror in particular turned many Canadiens against the Jacobin leadership as many refugees and émigrés fled to Canada bringing with them news of the bloodshed and fighting that had consumed France. The last diplomatic thaw was during the Directory but finally died as French naval ships harassed Canadien merchant ships and jailed Canadiens in France, but most visible of which was the Bellamey Affair in 1796 where French Diplomat Bellamey demanded bribes from the Canadien Government on the eve of the death of Luc-Andre. Following this the Canadien government began active negotiations with Great Britain over confronting France.

The Napoleonic Wars was a threat to Canada in part by attempts by Napoleon to hem in Canada through the Mississippi War through the United States but also proposed a more moral threat. There was during this period, highlighted by the Succession Crisis, a concern that Canada would go through similar events in France and be dominated by a military strongman in a Bonapartist fashion. This was particularly focused on the Canadien Governors who were primarily former military leaders during the Canadien Revolution and had by then been expressing concern over their own political dominions and the question of establishing their own political 'dynasties'. This crisis was quite luckily headed off by the personalities of the Foundation Period and the Revolution but, this victory would be a pyrrhic one in the long run as the influences of the French Revolution had lead to the development of political organization diversity.

The Whites and the Blues would be the first political phenomenon of the
Early Republic period and every period beyond. Ironically enough the Whites would be lead by Rene Canada, the former Port-Au-Prince slave who had become one of the leaders of Canada was extremely ardent in his views toward political entrenchment and established close political ties with the Merchant and growing Industrialist class. While on the Conservative side of the spectrum in Canada they were in no way similar to the Conservative elements within the United States supported by the agricultural plantation system, they were primarily Girondists and heavily based in Quebec and Acadia, but retained Louisiane and Nouvelle Orleans through involvement of Rene and the fall of the plantation elite. The Blues in the other hand were based more toward the Left on the political spectrum and were popular amongst the immigrants and settler farmers. Particularly amongst the Métis. Their popularity was centered in the expanding provinces west of Ontario including the Pays and ironically Illinois, Rene's Province of Governorship. Issues over adopting a more formal political mechanism regarding parties and the government, such as Electoral Voting and Control in the Legislature would be hotly debated as the nature of the political coalitions was spontaneous and not planned or desired by the writers of the Canadien Constitution.

The 1813 Legislative Election was highlighted by the fallout from the Succession Crisis, in which initially the Whites under Speaker Charles de Montmagny, the first initial concern of Montmagny government was the end of the Napoleonic War. Montmagny and the White Governors pressured Consul Riel over Canadien involvement in the Congress of Vienna to better position Canada for the future of France and all of Europe.
 
Population Estimates for the Anglo-Franco-Swede North American Nations as of 1815

United Provinces: 5,467,000 (Center Shifted Toward Great Lakes)
United States: 2,729,000 (Center Focused Between Virginia and Carolinas)
The Commonwealth of New England: 2,200,000 (Center between New York and Mass.)
The Dominion of New Sweden: 1,229,000 (Center Shifted Toward Appalachains)
 
The Congress of Vienna

While often mentioned as a Congress of sorts the representatives never really met as a single body in any sort of session or really voted on any sort of binding treaty amongst them. The important players involved of course were Great Britain, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, members of the various Italian States (including the Papacy), and finally Canada. The affairs of the United States' and Santo Domingo were settled previously during the Mississippi War. New Sweden was handled through Sweden of course. Europe is in shambles by this point, Russian troops on the Rhine, and a scramble in France to restore the Bourbon Throne.!

The main theme of things of course was quite reactionary in nature, to keep down all revolutionary forces: making things quite uncomfortable for Consul Gabriel Riel. In his memoirs he found the trip to Vienna to have been quite dis pleasurable but the company he kept in Vienna to be doubly so. THe previous balance of power had been thrown out the window and delegates were scrambling to fill the cracks that had opened up from the Napoleonic Wars. Canada itself really had no ability to influence affairs, but Riel still thought it important to keep an ear and an eye on the future of Europe and thereto the world. The only real success of his actions were getting Santo Domingo recognized as being independent from France. While he protested a return of the Bourbon Dynasty in France, Spain, and Italy out of principle what came next was really all out of his hands.

From the War, Britain, Russia, and Austria had emerged as the three great powers of Europe. The biggest upset of all being for Sweden which found its continental territory, with the exception of Estonia, swallowed between Russia and Austria-to the agreement of Great Britain to break Sweden's power in Europe and abroad. The traditional Northern and Eastern Germanic and Polish territories were given over to Russia directly and to the south over to Austria. Around the Rhineland being formed into the Confederation of the Rhine as puppet states between Austria and Russia. Swedes, for the most part Swedish speaking Germans, were more or less driven out of many territories by Russian and Austrian officials or those who would be their German puppets. Various territorial exchanges occurred, the slave trade was hotly condemned, and Britain scooped up what remained.

With this New Balance of Power, the Conservative Order was championed and various liberal movements were squashed. Having done his time in Vienna, Riel returned with a new distaste for Europeans in General and a bout of influenza which would weaken him greatly and kill him several years later.
 
And THEN Spanish America EXPLODED
By Enrique Sanchez


Contrary to the title of this article the leadup to the Latin American Wars of Independence was not something the people did one day, they did not look up at the sunny sky and say to one another "Weather looks grand, let's rebel!" No, no, no. the process was one of complex issues that had already been close to a century in the making in Latin America and at home in Europe. The inspired events would lead to the fall of the Spanish Empire as well as the development of both democracy and dictatorship in the Americas. People would be massacred while others would join together in brotherly arms. The Latin Fraternity would be forged, broken, and reforged variously through this time frame which is sadly not as widely covered in the United Provinces or any of the other North American nations. Perhaps it is the arrogance of the Francophones or some sort of social conspiracy by all North Americans to look down on their lower-equilateral kin.

Regardless, the beginnings of Revolution in Latin America span decades if not a century from the efforts by the Bourbon dynasty to 'reform' their American colonies so much so that they eventually alienated the people they ruled over to infectious rhetoric of Paine and other revolutionary writers who crossed the cultural and language gap in this time frame. Though, while I may have just been rather harsh on the North Americans in my previous paragraph it is true that the so called 'first domino' can be traced to the Wars of Independence in Francophone and Anglophone North America. Their national revolutions quickly sparked several different revolts in Spanish America through the 1790s. Mostly based on Maroon revolts inspired by Santo Domingo the true revolts against Spanish Rule coincided with the Napoleonic capture of Spain and the general distraction of the Spanish government as Royalists vs Napoleonic Royalists vs Revolutionaries appeared against one another.

The first of these being in the name of the Hero, Francisco de Miranda who from his home in the Canaries would take part in both the American and Canadien wars for Independence as well as French Revolutionary War itself! A failed attempt with the British to liberate Granada was launched in 1806 but was restarted in 1810 when Spanish Juntas had begun to set themselves up to govern the Spanish Americas. There was a deal of apprehension initially among the Crelole Elite to favor Revolution, but the example made by Louverture in Santo Domingo showed that revolution might not necessarily lead to their overture. Soon revolts sparked off throughout the Spanish Americas and once more, Canadien Vouyagers were making the scene as a new generation took to the international scene. Soon even in Mexico revolution was being sparked when a protest against actions by the Mexican Junta lead to a massacre in Mexico City in 1813 that sparked the dissolution of Spanish authority.

This would lead to what is known as the Quasi War between Canada and Spain, as a diplomatic row inevitably developed between the two nations what with the former having supported Santo Domingo's independence and Canadien Revolutionaries were supporting Anti-Royalist figures in Spanish America. With its own domestic issue following the Succession Crisis and the Vienna Congress, Canada officially could not do very much despite agitation at the highest levels to do so. There were calls to invade Mexico and the Caribbean but a diplomatic negative from the British would keep Canada from officially declaring war against Spain during this time frame.

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The Spanish Constitution of 1812 was well received by several Revolutionary figures, though alarming to some Canadiens, except for those who favored a complete separation from Spain. The period of 1812-1813 initially seemed to favor the triumph of conservative liberalism and moderation in these affairs but Ferdinand's rejection of these movements away from Absolutism poisoned affairs in Spanish America that would lead to their breakaway from the Spanish Crown. Historians point to the failure by the Monarchy to take up the Constitution as the point of no return for Spain regarding its American colonies, with the Bourbon Rejection the Spanish American Wars of Independence were guaranteed and would last well over a decade across the Western Hemisphere.
 
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