Outcast, in the unlikely event you find this post in the horde of posts that will have surrounded it on either side by the time you log on:

Once a slot is open for me, would it be possible for me to play as Canada? I think given the circumstances it's entirely possible for Canadian Confederation to occur a few years early. There were already meetings being held between the colonies at this point in time anyway, and no doubt the U.S. House of Representatives passing a motion to attempt to annex Canada would fire up the Canadian unification movement.