Från hav till hav (Swedish) ("From sea to sea") | |||||||
| Capital | Toronto | ||||||
| Largest city | Toronto | ||||||
| Other cities | Ottawa, New Stockholm, New Gothwick | ||||||
| Language official |
Swedish | ||||||
| others | English, French | ||||||
| Religion | Christianity-Protestant, Catholic | ||||||
| Ethnic Groups main |
No official statistics | ||||||
| others | No official statistics | ||||||
| Demonym | Kanadian | ||||||
| Legislature | North American Assembly | ||||||
The Federation of Swedish North America (Swedish: Svenska Nordamerika) were the colonies of the Swedish Empire in the North American continent between 1604 and 1982.
The first colonies were established along the east coast of the continent in the 1600s and 1700s and covered all land east of the Mississippi River and Eastern Kanada after a series of conflicts led to the ceding of land from France, Britain, and Spain.
The Six Years War cost Sweden to lose all of its colonies in Swedish North America that were south of the 49th parallel. They were ceded to Great Britain, who established British East America, which the Swedish colonies desperately tried to better how they could. Following the loss, Sweden restructured the government of Swedish North America to stabilize the colony and created a federation within the Empire for it, where direct rule from Stockholm was mixed with a devolved Rikstag in Toronto.
The etymology of the modern-day name Kanada came from the Iroquois word kanata, meaning village or settlement, which is how the first colonies of the federation were created. The name was first used in 1892, where Swedish North America prospered and stretched from ocean to ocean, which is why the motto of the colony was introduced in 1896.
Many men from Swedish North America were sent overseas to fight in the First World War (Pax Swedeanica) from 1902 to 1908, which resulted in a victory for Sweden and her allies. The Russian colony of Alyaska was captured and given independence by Sweden. Slight border annexations of Chinese California were imposed following the defeat of China in 1908. The war created some sort of independent national identity of "Kanada" separate from Sweden, and calls for independence increased. Following the Second World War (Pax Swedenaica) from 1937 to 1946, where Swedish North America was threatened with invasion and sent more men and money overseas to Sweden, independence was promised within 50 years of the conflict's conclusion.
The process of establishing a strong, independent Kanada was negotiated from 1954 to 1981 between representatives of Swedish North America and the Kingdom of Sweden. The peaceful, bloodless process of Kanadian independence was finalised and on 17 April 1982, the nation of Kanada came into being, and the Federation of Swedish North America was abolished after 378 years. However, the province of Labrador to the east did not want to join the new nation, and remained under Swedish rule until 2006. Greenland remains to this day an overseas province of Sweden.
Kanada today is predominately Protestant, Swedish-speaking with many traits of culture and with a Parliament based on the Rikstag and old North American Assembly, which was how the colony was devolved. Kanada, alongside many ex-Swedish colonies, still retain the Swedish monarch as head of state, and is a part of the Independent Nations of Nordica (INN).