British North America
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| Motto : God Save The King | |||
| Official language | English | ||
| Capital | London | ||
| Head of state , also head of government | king | ||
| currency | Pound sterling , Canadian pound , Canadian dollar | ||
| founding | 1783 | ||
| resolution | 1907 | ||
The term British North America , English British North America , came up after the American Revolution to designate the colonies on the North American continent that remained with the mother country Great Britain and which have now been incorporated into the nation of Canada .
In the historical specialist literature, this term is also used to describe the British colonial empire in North America in the time before the independence of the USA and includes its territory, insofar as it belonged to the colonial empire (see British America ).
See also
- British colonization of America
- British Empire
- Territorial development of Canada (with numerous maps)
- History of Canada
literature
- Charles Hill-Tout : British North America , Vol. 1: The Far West: The Home of the Salish and Dené , London: Constable 1907.
- Bernard Bailyn: The Peopling of British North America. An Introduction , Knopf Doubleday 2011. (Deficiencies: the roles of women and indigenous peoples are barely occupied.)
- Philip Girard: Lawyers and Legal Culture in British North America. Beamish Murdoch of Halifax , University of Toronto Press 2011.
- Linda E. Connors, Mary Lu MacDonald: National Identity in Great Britain and British North America, 1815-1851 , Ashgate Publishing 2011.
Web link
- British North America ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Remarks
- ↑ For example JMS Careless in the chapter The Shaping of British North America, 1791-1821 in his work Canada. A Story of Challenge from 1953, ND Cambridge University Press 2011, pp. 116ff.