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Editor says, what if a Fascist takeover had occurred in Lower Canada? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the May 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1940, on this day the Blue Shirts of Canadian Führer Adrien Arcand raised the Flag of Vichy France less than twenty-four hours after news of the formation of the Pétain Government reached the offices of the Parti National Social Chrétien in Montreal.
Canadian Führer Part 2Of course the continued existence of an independent Francophone state in Lower Canada had grown in significance with the collapse of French forces on the Western front. At first, Prime Minister Paul Reynaud had wanted to continue the war if necessary from North Africa, and Winston Churchill had gone so far as to propose a union of the two nations. But in the event, Reynaud had been outvoted in favour of a conditional surrender.
General Charles Huntziger then headed an armistice delegation with orders to break off negotiations if the Germans demanded the occupation of all metropolitan France, the French fleet or any of the French overseas territories. In the event, they did not and the armistice was signed in the Compiégne Forest on 22nd June. The formation of a successor state began in early July when the Parliament and the government gathered in the town of Vichy, their provisional capital in central France. And it was this pivotal event that was the catalyst for Arcand's declaration in Montreal. A moment timed to perfection by his trusted advisor, "The Rib".
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Politicians Source: Wikipedia Labels: Adrien Arcand, Fascism, Wallis Simpson, Nazi, Canada. Editor says, in authoring this article we have sought to respond to reader Mark Taylor's comment "Never remotest possibility of Fascist takeover in Canada.". In so doing we have assumed that Montcalm triumphed on the Plains of Abraham, the sale of Louisiana never happened and yet the development of Germany followed essentially the same course.
~ If the UK retained it's naval dominance then it is not so much a question of if as when the Free French take over French North America. Presuming of course that it is not strong enough to blow off the surrender of the metropole to begin with.
~ I'm not sure that an independent Quebec would want to be so closely tied to European France.
~ This is unlikely to occur I'm afraid.
Three alternatives are likely to happen;-
(1) there will be French naval dominance, the franch Empire will be dominant and the French kings still rule in Paris.
Germany is a confederation dominated by them.
(2) Britain formed an alliance with Germany against France.
(3) With no US. and US. economy to assist Britain the Great War ended in 1915.
Willaim V and II reigns in London and Berlin.
~ And a complicated one to boot.
~ Civil War in Quebec, yet another theater for this TL's WW2 and would be much scarier for Americans at home. Maybe even enough to give clout to the American neutrality folks not to bring fight Germany, which would mean fighting Vichy, which would mean liberating just across the St. Laurence River.
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