WI: no French colonisation in the Americas?

So, for whatever reason the French either deside agianst, never get around to, or are stoped from founding colonies in the Americas. This just leaves the Dutch, British, Spainish, Portugese, and maybe the Swedish. Who takes control of Quebec? Lousiana? The French Islands?
 
The English would take control of the Gulf of St. Lawrence littoral, running upstream into the continent.

There might be some conflicting claims around the lower Great Lakes where the Dutch were coming up the Hudson and the English down the St. Lawrence. At minimum I would suspect the Dutch to be confined to the southern shore of Lakes Ontario and Erie, with the English on the Northern.

The mouth of the Mississippi would probably be a Spanish settlement, giving them claim to the entire Miss. Valley. In the long run they would still be beset by English-speakers from the East coming over the Appalachias.

The Carib islands are a grab-bag for any other European power.
 
In North America, if the French stayed away, native societies would collapse even earlier than OTL. Of all the main European powers in north america, the French had less interest in subjecting the American Indians to outright conquest and/or removal. The English America colonists were confirmed settlers aiming ultimately to take over Indian lands to live in. The Spanish were after forceful conversions, enslavement, and mineral exploitation. French relationships with the Indians was based more on mutually beneficial trading relationships. This allowed a number of tribes in the midwest and plains states to flourish as trading partners and military allies of the French - to the detrimnent of both other tribes as well as the Spanish and English.

Had the French not lost in 1763, its interesting to speculate how this would have affected the evolution of creole native societies.
 
French relationships with the Indians was based more on mutually beneficial trading relationships. This allowed a number of tribes in the midwest and plains states to flourish as trading partners and military allies of the French - to the detrimnent of both other tribes as well as the Spanish and English.

Had the French not lost in 1763, its interesting to speculate how this would have affected the evolution of creole native societies.
Well, first of all, I voted France to be the one that get better relations with natives, but I think that "was based more on mutually beneficial trading" is not exactly the right terms. I think that was more like we aren´t suficient settlers to exterminate the indians so, we would get good (at least in terms of the society of that time) relationships with them.
About the posesion of french colonies in America, I think that St.Lawrence Gulf would end in english hands but I could see spanish presence (at lest portuguese).
 
Remember Carolana. England tried to colonize the Mississippi delta at the exact same time France did. Without France about, the eastern part of North America is EASILY all English. Spanish Florida, with Carolana, Georgia, and the Bahamas surrounding it, has its days numbered.

Hell, it's more a grab bag between England and France of claiming Oregon and maybe even the old claim of New Albion alongside it.
 
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