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Originally Posted by jigglysquishy

I've always been curious on a delayed WWI. Even delaying it to 1920 probably gets an extra 1,000,000 immigrants in the absence of war.

Most of those would be central/ eastern European immigrants to the prairies. With natural growth, it nets an extra 2,000,000 people in Canada.

The change in Saskatchewan would be profound. Instead of the population stagnating around 1 million for 80 years, it likely hits 1,500,000 mid century. Maybe even hits 2,000,000 in present day.

I've also often wondered this myself...not even a delayed WW1 but one where Canada continued to accept as many immigrants as it was in the years leading up to the war. I figure this would have made the greatest impact in the prairies where many immigrants were headed at the time, I imagine both Manitoba and Saskatchewan being double their current size, while Alberta would be closer to 5 million (assuming its pre-oil boom population was larger).