![]() Senate went so far as to pass a resolution to pay $6 million for the area they now occupy.) ![]() That at least four western Canadian provinces - Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia - would instead be American states today.That the entire Pacific Coast from southern California to the far tip of Alaska would now be U.S.The map of North America today - with much of the United States-Canadian border lying along the 49th parallel - might easily have been very different.Īmerican “manifest destiny” didn’t have to stop where it did but could have turned northward in the mid-19th century with a couple likely results: ![]()
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