The St. Lawrence incident of '37

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Unlike Louisiana, who started out as a protectorate of France, Quebec at first sought to maintain a strict neutrality towards it's mother country. But encirclement and increasing raids from the Maritime Provinces demanded a response, and in the summer of 1937, Quebec made an alliance with France, who pledged help with Quebec's troublesome neighbor.

In september 1937, the border clashes between Quebec and the Maritime Provinces degenerated into a small-scale war. Hoping to reclaim their vagrant province, Ontario intervened against Quebec.

ISA supported Ontario. The Empire State supported Quebec. Suddenly the ISA shifted stance and checkmated Ontario, which had to quickly withdraw from Quebec.

Quebecois and French forces were able to take the war to the enemy on only one front. Seemingly guided by divine intuition, their missions were rarely intercepted and their own interceptions worked remarkably well. The gods of war were certainly smiling on the francophones.

At this point, the Atlantic Coalition made an ultimatum to the Maritime Provinces; accept an alliance and a federation with us, or face the wraith of Quebec and France on your own. The president of the Maritime Provinces accepted after reviewing reports of his aircraft losses and hearing reports of further French reinforcements.

The Atlantic Coalition deployed numerous super-fast new fights, and this settled the war in short order.

The only permanent land gain from this brushfire war was that the Lake Ontario channels are now under "international supervision", that is under ISA dominance. The territory still belongs to Ontario, but is demilitarized and customs-free, a series of free ports.

The political consequences are staggering. Quebec was bound much more tightly to France. The Maritime Provinces is now more or less a subject state of the Atlantic Coalition, and a federation is expected soon. And the ISA and Empire State reaffirmed their dislike for one another.

It also left some open questions; what made the Quebecois forces so effective, giving them a sort of strange intuition. And from where did the super-fast Atlantic Collation planes come? Mysteries abound.