Points of Divergence : Canada

Points of divergence concerning alternate historical developments within the modern day territory of Canada.

• Native American PODs
• DBWI: The Clovis people survived ?
• Discussion on more advanced Native Americans
• Reindeer/caribou sled vs dog sled ?
• WI: Inuits in Northern Canada developed Pykrete in the 1200s ?
• Ideas about more developed medieval era Amerindian civilizations
• Discussion on a more advanced native civilisation in the Pacific Northwest
• Discussion on an indigenous powerhouse in the Pacific Northwest
• Making the Haida more powerful
• Vikings discover and fully colonize America
• Keeping Vinland settled
• Surviving Vinland colony ideas
• Plausibility check: How far could a Vinland colony grow ?
• The long-term geo-political consequences of Vinland's survival ?
• WI: The Knights Templar colonizing North America (like according to some legends)
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• Earlier Permanent Settlement of New France
• PODs for a non-US-centric North American union or major power
• Alternate names for Canada
• Challenge: Surviving Native American countries
• WI Champlain befriends Iroqouis instead of Huron and Algonquins?
• The Wendat (Huron) found their own realm of Wendake
• Danish Canada
• WI: Swedish settle in OTL Quebec instead of OTL New Sweden and vice versa ?
• The Haida become expansionist
• How likely is a balkanised America ?
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• How likely is a balkanised America ?
• WI Canada stays French
• Challenge: A Canadian Manifest Destiny
• Turn all Canada French
• Development of an American Canada
• Treaty of Paris WI: A Different US-BNA Boundary
• More Loyalists leave for Canada and elsewhere
• Hudson Bay Company PODs
• Challenge: Independent country on Haida Gwaii islands (Queen Charlotte islands)
• Challenge: With a POD after 1750, Jewish settlers and natives in the Pacific Northwest create many small and medium businesses based on fisheries
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• Hudson Bay Company PODs
• Challenge: Plausible maximum territory Canada
• Alternate Canadian Provinces/Territories
• Challenge/WI: Rupert's Land and Canada as separate countries ?
• Challenge: USA buys western Canada
• Different (further south) Northern US Border
• Realistic ways of the United States annexing Canada
• A victorious 1837 Rebellion ?
• What would be the national anthem of an independent Lower Canada in 1837 ?
• Effects of no American Civil War on Canada
• WI: Louis Riel not executed ?
• Challenge: A Metis-Fenian Alliance
• Challenge: Canandians keep a British-sounding accent
• The Trent Affair, Manitoba, and the Metis...
• "Wild West" era in Canada
• Anglo-American War of 1871
• Challenge: Canadian Province of New England
• Challenge: The UK or Canada buys Greenland (with a post-1860 POD)
• Canada Annexation Bill of 1866
• WI: The USA had Annexed British Columbia ?
• US annexation of British Columbia for the Alabama Claims
• US Grant invades Canada
• American-British War in the 1880s or 1890s
• A Canadian Timeline Request svp (re railroads)
• Make Canada an extremely powerful nation
• Maximum Canadian Population ?
• Challenge: Have an internal armed conflict in Canada
• Trail of Tears Goes North
• No "Turkey Red" Grain
• Multi-provincial francophone Quiet Revolution etc. in Canada
• somewhat more French-speaking Canada
• Challenge: Maximum plausible Canada
• What are the most likely alternate fate of Canada ?
• Stronger Canadian population size and growth
• Challenge: A Larger Canadian Population
• Stronger Canada, Strong United States
• Canadian River Pirates pre-1900
• Challenge: A world war in the Western Hemisphere
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• WI: Republic of Western Canada ?
• Red Ice: Canada goes Bolshevik
• Canadian River Pirates post-1900
• Challenge: Nelson River Seaway
• Challenge: A Canadian car company (with a POD between 1900 and 1960)
• World War I PODs
• Canadian Samoa after WWI
• WI: Imperial Preference in 1932 ?
• Canadian Caribbean and Permanent SC Seat
• WI: Canadian-Caribbean Union
• World War II PODs
• Challenge: Canadian Battleships
• Challenge: Canada with a permanent Security Council Seat
• Challenge: Delay the Quiet Revolution as long as possible
• Make Quebec the most conservative place in Canada
• Challenge: With a POD after 1946, Canada joins the USA
• Plausibility check: How big could the Canadian aviation industry get ?
• WI the CF-103 came first ?
• WI The Avro Arrow entered service ? (1)
• WI The Avro Arrow entered service ? (2)
• Challenge: Divided Canada after 1950
• WI Canada retains a CV capability ?
• Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark: Lougheed shuts off oil in 1980
• More Canadian Space Agency firsts ?
• Could the White-Majority Colonies have stayed part of Britain ?
• Canada, Australia and New Zealand stay with Britain
• Canada's October Crisis
• Quebec secedes in 1983
• Independent Quebec
• Challenge: Keep Canada from being dominated by the US and/or the UK, pop-culture wise
• "Canada Today" newspaper
• Canadian PM Joe Clark, Act II
• Challenge: Harper as a Liberal PM
• Jack Layton, and the problem this man presents
• WI: No Trudeau ?
• A Canadian First Nations political party on the federal level
• WI The Canadian Forces bought the F-14s ?
• Challenge: With a post-1980 POD, make the Canadian video game industry dominate the market
• WI: Hovercraft passenger ferries on the Great Lakes and Mississippi river system
• WI: Jean Charest Beats Kim Campbell to be PC Leader and Prime Minister ?
• A Liberal Premier of Alberta in 1993
• Quebec votes to secede in 1995
• Preparing for a "Yes:" Quebec, 1995
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• Create a disaster equal or greater than 9/11 for Toronto
• WI NDP wins the 2011 canadian elections ?
• Canada's Gov General allows Liberal-NDP coalition to take power
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Canada

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Useful Resources about Canada

Professor Zyzzyva's Canadian History 101

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