WI: Quebec joins America in Revolutionary War 1775

What if Quebec begins a revolution against Britain at the same time as the thirteen colonies. 1775

With a unified revolution Quebec and the colonies plan to take away all British lands in Eastern North America.
This would only leave Britain with Rupert's Land any anything else to the west.

How would this effect support the colonies receive from France, Spain and the Dutch?
Would Quebec receive similar support?

If victorius the colonies and Quebec negotiate boundaries. (see map)

Colonies: All Province of Quebec's land south of Great Lakes, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia
Quebec: All Province of Quebec's land north of Great Lakes and Newfoundland

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Why would Quebec, which shares none of the complaints of the Thirteen and knows that the Thirteen have made noisy antiCatholic statements and actions recently, want to join their rebellion?

You need at least something to make the Quebecois more suspicious of the British than the New Englanders.
 
The British had only just enacted the Quebec Act in 1774 which started to give the Quebecois more rights. Before the act the British policy was to try to make the Quebecois assimilate into British culture by not giving any rights to the largely Catholic Quebecois unless they denounced their religion and swore allegiance to the British crown. So there is cause for some resentment of the British. Then with the anticipation of the coming revolution of the colonies, Quebec would become interested in become a free and independent nation themselves. Although they would need alliances to help fight as the population of Quebec was only maybe 100,000 at the time.

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The British had only just enacted the Quebec Act in 1774 which started to give the Quebecois more rights. Before the act the British policy was to try to make the Quebecois assimilate into British culture by not giving any rights to the largely Catholic Quebecois unless they denounced their religion and swore allegiance to the British crown. So there is cause for some resentment of the British. Then with the anticipation of the coming revolution of the colonies, Quebec would become interested in become a free and independent nation themselves. Although they would need alliances to help fight as the population of Quebec was only maybe 100,000 at the time.

Pretty much nonsense.

Why would the Quebecois revolt against the British once they had pretty much reversed their policy of assimilation and replaced it with cultural co-existence. All the greivances you mention were met by the provisions of the Quebec Act. So much so that non-Francophone residents were pretty pissed off.

You've more chance of an American invasion of Quebec defended by the Quebecois than a Quebecois led revolution.
 
The British had only just enacted the Quebec Act in 1774 which started to give the Quebecois more rights. Before the act the British policy was to try to make the Quebecois assimilate into British culture by not giving any rights to the largely Catholic Quebecois unless they denounced their religion and swore allegiance to the British crown. So there is cause for some resentment of the British. Then with the anticipation of the coming revolution of the colonies, Quebec would become interested in become a free and independent nation themselves. Although they would need alliances to help fight as the population of Quebec was only maybe 100,000 at the time.

a few points:

- they wouldn't have called themselves québecois, the term only began to be used widely in the 20th century. At the time they would have called themselves "canadiens" (despite the change of name of the colony).

- The support for the "bostonais" (as the revolutionaries were called) was practicaly nill outside of montreal. The priests in the colony hammered the point that the canadiens support for the british was binding on their honnor. While a few would obviously have been willing to join, they had nowhere near a critical mass.

- Even in the unlikely event the canadiens joined the revolution, I doubt they would have been republicans. Even before the conquest, you never had any sort of "no taxation without representation" type of demonstration. The only type of representatives they were used to were the estates-generals (which were called at the whim of the authorities) and the syndics elected by merchants in some cities.

- Also, as the other poster mentioned, the revolutionaries appeared to the canadiens as pretty rabidly anti-catholics while the british were simply bigoted in a way the allowed them nevertheless to deal with things. Joining with the rebels and losing would mean losing what they had acquired which is why there were threats of excommunication to those who joined.

- Lastly, part of the cause for the conflict was the inclusion of the transappalachian lands into the province of quebec which denied settlement on it by the british colonials. This mean that the canadiens would be joining people they knew from the get go were after part of their own territory.
 
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