WI: Swedish Hudson Bay?

If Sweden can somehow take and keep Norway very early, including its historic possessions in the Faeroes, Iceland, and Greenland, then it is wholly plausible. Otherwise, Sweden is poorly positioned for early colonization, which is what anything in the Americas entails.
 
The only way you could have any sort of surviving Swedish colonization would be to have Gustav Adolphus II survive Lutzen and live a long life as King. That way he could do all the things he needs to to conquer Norway and shift enough resources toward colonization.
 
Wasn't Gustav Adolf II pretty mercantilist though? I'm not sure he would see the point of colonialism, considered the expenses involved. Perhaps some half-hearted attempt that somehow through incredible luck and lax government intervention becomes some form of singapore of the east coast.

EDIT: wait, hudson bay? How big is it?
 
EDIT: wait, hudson bay? How big is it?

Very, very big.

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Wouldn't Denmark be better-suited for this type of colonization? They are already in the area (Iceland and Greenland)...
 
Wasn't Gustav Adolf II pretty mercantilist though? I'm not sure he would see the point of colonialism, considered the expenses involved.
Hudson's Bay was too cold for colonies, it was more for furs, hence Gustav being mercantilist would give him good reason to want it.
 
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