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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
Maybe. Although NYC has one of the finest natural harbors on the East Coast (and if part of Canada, may have sucked away some of that function from Montreal).
I do find these alternative history speculations interesting. Imagine, for example if France did not lose Quebec, and if the original territory for Quebec had been retained. Quebec may have become a superpower.
Most of what was Quebec is no longer Quebec, and most of what is Quebec was not Quebec. |
Wasn't Quebec was a British colony by 1774? By then the British controlled almost everything in North America between the Mississippi and the Atlantic Coast. The major gaps were Indian territory and Florida.