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Belatedly, for music... you might want to look at Stompin' Tom Connors for the Anglo-Canadian side of things (though it might be out of time period, started making music in the 60s) or Paul Anka. For the Francos... well, there's a million different small folk music artists in French Canadian culture. I'm not an expert on it at all, particularly in that time period, but for a "name soup" check out https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pop-music-in-quebec-and-french-canada-emc/

The cool thing about Montreal is that prior to the separatist thing in the 70s and 80s, the city was very heavily loyalist Anglophone and made an interesting mix of people. Many Anglos (regardless of actual ethnic origin) were very British-Canadian in orientation, (I remember my grandmother using all manner of British terms in her day to day conversation, loyalty to the Queen and Commonwealth etc...). Quebec's population in the 50s was 15% Anglophone, but it was much higher in Montreal itself, and Anglos controlled a lot of the business and politics of the city. Given the divergence in timeline between real life and Fallout, you guys might want to stick with it, go with what happened historically or diverge into a what if.

I might poke my head in here, being a native Montrealer and a big Fallout fan. This looks super interesting!

@selu Nice try.

@rizbunz Hard for me to answer, to be honest, given that I grew up there in the 90s and I'm an Anglophone. Things Franco culture like old school music are a bit outside my realm.

Perhaps, like I said, you can have tensions between the minority of Anglophone and the majority of Francophones as an example. Divided loyalties, maybe - those who wanted to keep Canada independent (as part of the Commonwealth, or whatever followed it in game chronology), those who were pro-American and threw their lots in with the occupiers, and those who were isolationalist. The French would probably fall into the latter camp often, but that might be another division.

Of course, this is long ago now. Groups remain the same. You can also have the Church, which was monolithic and very important in French society until the 60s, be a big player in this world, perhaps. There's also a sizeable Mohawk reserve south of the city (Kahnawake) that could EASILY make a comeback as a potent force, and would actually be very cool to see in this.