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Yes but being interior the climate is worse in winter especially and connections to Europe are markedly worse. Even if you get full control of the St Lawrence - which would also mean clashing with the Iroquois I believe - its frozen in winter so your logistics suck. If you also get secure...

I would agree but to secure room for that greater settler population England would have to start pushing south into at least the New England/New York region and probably somewhere south of that. - Assuming social and historical developments in the respective homelands similar to OTL but just...

There will be a lot of conflict and also a lot of possible changes in history. I could see France keeping hold of some sections as they might have a larger settler base from possible local growth by settlers over the period but without major changes in the structure of the two powers I think...

Do you mean in the 2nd bit hard to imagine England NOT controlling the eastern seaboard as it sounds rather odd as I read it? To answer your question I would say I could fairly easily see France doing the 1st, establishing bases along most of the eastern seaboard of the OTL US in the early...

I did actually mention the problem for France but probably not explicitly enough. Agree that unless France is driven to a real effort, which given its other demands is unlikely its colonies are going to be vulnerable to English/British naval superiority - at least unless and until they get a...

Interesting scenario. I'm not sure that France will end up dominating the OTL US east coast as OTL England had some advantages here. a) France was primarily committed to trade rather than settlement having a lot of land in France or desired annexations and also with the monarchy and more...