The Off Topic Topic

[Neil]

Zanza, America's never shown any interest in the Bahamas. Our focus historically has been on Cuba, Puerto Rico is just a bonus that comes with war with Spain.

Of course, a part of that is because the US shared a border with the far more militarily powerful Britain, and after 1812 the US was wary of getting into a military confrontation with the UK.

[Neil]

The rest of New France was virtually unpopulated aside from the natives, while there was probably close to 100k French in Quebec by now.

Doubtful.  There were only about 60,000 at the time of the conquest, and the French colonies in Canada grew much more slowly than the British colonies further south.  And that 60,000 was scattered through an area that wasn't all that much smaller than British North America.

The Americans, on the other hand, spawned like blowflies.  They had easily absorbed 7,000 Acadians half a century earlier, and would gobble up the remaining thousands of French Catholics in Louisiana over the next half-century.  And given their aggressiveness, xenophobia and thirst for conquest, there's no reason to believe that they wouldn't absorb the Quebecois either.

70,000 IIRC and they were concentrated in settlements along the Saint Lawrence. As for the rest of your post

I'm more probably correct than you, because of what I am.  At any rate, that's a long way off from 100k.

I accept your surrender.

[jimmy olsen]

The rest of New France was virtually unpopulated aside from the natives, while there was probably close to 100k French in Quebec by now.

Doubtful.  There were only about 60,000 at the time of the conquest, and the French colonies in Canada grew much more slowly than the British colonies further south.  And that 60,000 was scattered through an area that wasn't all that much smaller than British North America.

The Americans, on the other hand, spawned like blowflies.  They had easily absorbed 7,000 Acadians half a century earlier, and would gobble up the remaining thousands of French Catholics in Louisiana over the next half-century.  And given their aggressiveness, xenophobia and thirst for conquest, there's no reason to believe that they wouldn't absorb the Quebecois either.

70,000 IIRC and they were concentrated in settlements along the Saint Lawrence. As for the rest of your post

I'm more probably correct than you, because of what I am.  At any rate, that's a long way off from 100k.

I accept your surrender.

Lies.

Population in 1760 = 70,000 (page 12), an increase of 63% since 1739. At the rate they would be close to 100k by the Revolution
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/98-187-x/4198820-eng.pdf

[Neil]

Lies.

Population in 1760 = 70,000 (page 12), an increase of 63% since 1739. At the rate they would be close to 100k by the Revolution
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/98-187-x/4198820-eng.pdf

New France != Quebec.

New France was the entire area controlled by France in North America.  The area we're discussing was known as the Province of Canada.

Moreover, you're forgetting to take into account that the 63% increase in population was caused by a large increase in investment and immigration from France, which would obviously not continue past the Fall.

[jimmy olsen]

Lies.

Population in 1760 = 70,000 (page 12), an increase of 63% since 1739. At the rate they would be close to 100k by the Revolution
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/98-187-x/4198820-eng.pdf

New France != Quebec.

New France was the entire area controlled by France in North America.  The area we're discussing was known as the Province of Canada.

The population outside the St. Lawrence river valley was negligible.

[Neil]

Lies.

Population in 1760 = 70,000 (page 12), an increase of 63% since 1739. At the rate they would be close to 100k by the Revolution
http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/98-187-x/4198820-eng.pdf

New France != Quebec.

New France was the entire area controlled by France in North America.  The area we're discussing was known as the Province of Canada.

The population outside the St. Lawrence river valley was negligible.

Irrelevant.  The trapping population of the inland and north and the small cluster around the Mississippi delta could easily add up into the thousands.

[jimmy olsen]

[Neil]

Why would anyone build such a silly war machine?

[jimmy olsen]

Why would anyone build such a silly war machine?

I thought it was a War of the World homage.

[Neil]

Why would anyone build such a silly war machine?

I thought it was a War of the World homage.

Could be.  The forward one seems to be a quadruped, but that might just be a telephone pole.

[jimmy olsen]

Why would anyone build such a silly war machine?

I thought it was a War of the World homage.

Could be.  The forward one seems to be a quadruped, but that might just be a telephone pole.

Yeah, I'm almost certain that forward leg on the left is a telephone pole.

[garbon]

The population of SF is beginning to swell as gays flock to the city.

[Neil]

The population of SF is beginning to swell as gays flock to the city.

Which is surprising, given that the state of California hates gays.  Then again a homo ghetto would be great.

[Admiral Yi]

Hmmm, thought I had posted but no go.

Anyway, wanted to mention the recent Senate resolution apologizing for slavery and Jim Crow.

[garbon]

Which is surprising, given that the state of California hates gays.  Then again a homo ghetto would be great.

It is only temporary. They are all coming for pride.