A larger Canada and later North American wars

The panel extends the counterfactual by placing many territories of the historical American North inside Canada. In this scenario, a smaller United States could remain more dependent on slavery, while Canada gained industrial potential and mineral resources that historically belonged to the United States. Those resources would change Canada's weight within the British Empire and its contribution to later large wars. A further suggestion places Ohio-born William Tecumseh Sherman in Canadian service, explicitly conditional on his life otherwise developing along comparable lines. The discussion ends by considering a weaker United States in a war with Mexico. In that version, Britain and Canada might support the United States because it served as a buffer between Canada and Mexico.