WI: No Louisiana Purchase?

What Americans in Canada? Except for the United Empire Loyalists (who don't really count), there weren't any sizeable number until after the War of 1812.

Right. But there were plenty of Americans who moved to Canada, and didn't yearn to rejoin America.
 
This is sort of like how the Americans in Canada welcomed the Americans as liberators, right?

If Canada was nearly completely isolated from the British metropole, there was no effort to establish a settler colony, and the wealth of the region was built upon the declining foundation of the fur trade then yes.

I cannot see France being able to do much about American incursions into Iowa and Minnesota though. Its the same general idea for why Britain didn't seek out the maximum extent of its claims in the pacific northwest.
 
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I cannot see France being able to do much about American incursions into Iowa and Minnesota though. Its the same general idea for why Britain didn't seek out the maximum extent of its claims in the pacific northwest.

That wasn't what the wealth of Louisiana was based on, though. It was envisioned by Napoleon and the French to be a granary for Santo Domingo and to grow cash crops of its own.
 
one further consideration of this POD... the money the USA paid for the territory. Napoleon's treasury will be that much poorer. Not sure if the payment was all that much in the grand scheme of things, but it would have to have an affect somewhere down the road...
 
That wasn't what the wealth of Louisiana was based on, though. It was envisioned by Napoleon and the French to be a granary for Santo Domingo and to grow cash crops of its own.

It would have been a great idea in theory, but France was a little too preoccupied during the early 19th century to focus on establishing an American settler colony much less one designed to supply foodstuffs to a colony which it no longer controlled.
 
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