Glen
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<blatant self promotion>read the TL in my sig</blatant self promotion>
I think what I've got is a fair balance of wanking and plausibility with Canada being recognizably descended from the same original Canada of OTL.
Yes, it's nothing like a superpower yet (in ~1840), and will take quite a while to catch up even to the rump US involved. However, by sometime in the 20th century, it's going to be a Major Power (I haven't gotten there yet, but probably bigger and stronger than any single country in Europe - bar, perhaps, the Russians).
Yes, I've started reading yours now (blatant self promotion works!), and it seems very reasonable thus far, though I'm not certain that increasing the number of royalist French is really 'keeping the same people'