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Hi again!

This is a follow up map of the canadian referendum map i posted yesterday, if you remember, depicting a rather.... fear mongering newspaper's take on the result of the referendum in case of a Republican victory.

Explanations about the context are on the other thread, here's just the POD:

1) the acadian aren't expulsed and 2) there is some kind of missouri compromise between the french and english to the west so the french take everything between 52°N and 55°N and the english, between 49°N and 52°N. With the land given to the french most quebeckers who would emigrate to the United States go west instead.

Info on the demographics:

by 2016 canada is still united (but demographically divided, although), the total population is about 38 millions of which 17 millions are ethnically french (12 millions Quebeckers, 3.5 millions acadians, a good million of recent french immigration and half a milion of mixed native/french). 4.5 millions canadian would belong to IRL's "visible minorities" (generally the french population wanted less migrants and was less accepting, and still is,so that number is lower than IRL's 7.5 millions), the population of British origin is about 16.5 millions, of which Scottish and Irish origin are about half's IRL numbers, mostly because the maritimes was already overpopulated by french so they just went to the USA rather than there.

So there are slightly more ethnically french people, but linguistically english has a small advantage because more migrants of non French or English origin learned English.

Basically IRL 900k quebeckers went to the USA
mainly because of the lack of oportunities and land in quebec , ITTL thanks to the "canadian missouri compromise" they got access to a lot of land west and so 700k stayed in canada. If you extrapolate these numbers there would be about 3.5 millions french more. For the acadians i did some estimate and found about 4 millions, then used a similar ratio of emigration and took into account the carrying capacity of the maritimes and found that 3.5 million would stay in canada ( although only 1.8 millions in the maritimes/acadia, which is more populated ITTL, New Brunswick has twice the population - but is also larger, Prince edward Island has 400k peopel and a population density comparable to europeans countrysides). Then you have to take into account the quebeckers who assimilated into the English population IRL but didn't in this timeline (ITTL) and i also added 1 million of recent french immigration - Canada is quite more attractive for french. And i found about 17 million "Ethnic" French by Today (note that this map was made from a point of view in the 60s, at the time it would be closer to 10 millions), add to that a few millions english living in french provinces, and it's not that underpopulated

Description

Hi again!

This is a follow up map of the canadian referendum map i posted yesterday, if you remember, depicting a rather.... fear mongering newspaper's take on the result of the referendum in case of a Republican victory.

Explanations about the context are on the other thread, here's just the POD:

1) the acadian aren't expulsed and 2) there is some kind of missouri compromise between the french and english to the west so the french take everything between 52°N and 55°N and the english, between 49°N and 52°N. With the land given to the french most quebeckers who would emigrate to the United States go west instead.

Info on the demographics:

by 2016 canada is still united (but demographically divided, although), the total population is about 38 millions of which 17 millions are ethnically french (12 millions Quebeckers, 3.5 millions acadians, a good million of recent french immigration and half a milion of mixed native/french). 4.5 millions canadian would belong to IRL's "visible minorities" (generally the french population wanted less migrants and was less accepting, and still is,so that number is lower than IRL's 7.5 millions), the population of British origin is about 16.5 millions, of which Scottish and Irish origin are about half's IRL numbers, mostly because the maritimes was already overpopulated by french so they just went to the USA rather than there.

So there are slightly more ethnically french people, but linguistically english has a small advantage because more migrants of non French or English origin learned English.

Basically IRL 900k quebeckers went to the USA
mainly because of the lack of oportunities and land in quebec , ITTL thanks to the "canadian missouri compromise" they got access to a lot of land west and so 700k stayed in canada. If you extrapolate these numbers there would be about 3.5 millions french more. For the acadians i did some estimate and found about 4 millions, then used a similar ratio of emigration and took into account the carrying capacity of the maritimes and found that 3.5 million would stay in canada ( although only 1.8 millions in the maritimes/acadia, which is more populated ITTL, New Brunswick has twice the population - but is also larger, Prince edward Island has 400k peopel and a population density comparable to europeans countrysides). Then you have to take into account the quebeckers who assimilated into the English population IRL but didn't in this timeline (ITTL) and i also added 1 million of recent french immigration - Canada is quite more attractive for french. And i found about 17 million "Ethnic" French by Today (note that this map was made from a point of view in the 60s, at the time it would be closer to 10 millions), add to that a few millions english living in french provinces, and it's not that underpopulated