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British North America

British North America consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
in continental North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
after the end of the American Revolutionary War

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
and the recognition of American independence

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
(1783).

At the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775 the British Empire included 20 territories North of Mexico: Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, the 13 colonies which became the USA the new former Spanish possessions East and West Florida together with the recently acquired Province of Quebec(formerly New France).

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British North America consisted of the colonies and territories of the British Empire

British Empire

North America

American Revolutionary War

United States

East Florida

East Florida was originally a part of Spanish Florida. Under the terms of the Treaty of Paris , which ended the Seven Years' War, Spain ceded all of its territory east and southeast of the Mississippi River to the Kingdom of Great Britain....
and West Florida

West Florida

West Florida was a region on the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico, which underwent several boundary and sovereignty changes during its history....
were ceded by Spain to Britain in the Treaty of Paris (1763)

Treaty of Paris (1763)

The Treaty of Paris, often called the Peace of Paris, or the Treaty of 1763, was signed on February 10, 1763, by the kingdoms of Kingdom of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement....
which ended the Seven Years War. Quebec became Lower Canada in 1791 as a partner colony to the newly formed Upper Canada created to accommodate the United Empire Loyalists then fleeing revolutionary America. The Floridas were subsequently ceded by Spain to the United States in 1819.

Following the War of 1812

War of 1812

The War of 1812, between the United States of America and the British Empire , was fought from 1812 to 1815.There were several immediate stated causes for the U.S....
, the Treaty of 1818

Treaty of 1818

The Convention respecting fisheries, boundary, and the restoration of slaves between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the London Convention, Anglo-American Convention of 1818, Convention of 1818, or simply the Treaty of 1818, was a treaty signed in 1818 between the...
established the 49th parallel

49th parallel

49th parallel may refer to:* 49th parallel north, a line of latitude*49th parallel south, a line of latitude*49th Parallel, the 1941 British film...
as the US-British North America border for Rupert's Land

Rupert's Land

Rupert's Land, also sometimes called "Prince Rupert's Land", was a territory in British North America, consisting of the List of Hudson Bay rivers, that was owned by the Hudson's Bay Company for 200 years from 1670 to 1870....
west to the Rocky mountains

Rocky Mountains

The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a mountain range in western North America. The Rocky Mountains stretch more than 4,800 kilometre from the northernmost part of British Columbia, in Canada, to New Mexico, in the United States....
. At that time the Red River Colony

Red River Colony

The Red River Colony was a colonization project set up by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1811 on 300,000 km? of land granted to him by the Hudson's Bay Company under what is referred to as the Selkirk Concession....
was ceded to the U.S.A.and joint occupation of Oregon Country

Oregon Country

Oregon Country or Oregon was a predominantly United States term referring to a region of the Pacific Northwest of North America. The region was occupied by British North America and French Canadian fur traders from before 1810, and American settlers from the mid-1830s....
commenced. Britain ceded occupation of the Pacific coast south of the 49 latitude known as Hudson Bay Company's Columbia District

Columbia District

The Columbia District was a Fur trade district in the Pacific Northwest region of British North America in the 19th century. It was explored by the North West Company between 1793 and 1811, and established as an operating fur district around 1810....
under the Oregon Treaty

Oregon Treaty

The Oregon Treaty, is a bilateral treaty between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846 in Washington, D.C....
of 1846.

Upper and Lower Canada were joined with Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada located on Canada's southeastern coast. It is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada....
and New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only Constitution of Canada bilingual province in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton....
on July 1,1867 by Act of the British Parliament called the British North America Act forming the Dominion of Canada. In 1871 British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's Provinces and territories of Canada and is famed for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ....
joined the Dominion of Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
and Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a Canada Provinces and territories of Canada consisting of an island of the same name. The Maritimes is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population ....
joined in 1873. It wasn't until 1949 that the sole remaining British North American colony, Newfoundland

Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador is a Provinces and territories of Canada of Canada, on the country's Atlantic Ocean coast in northeastern North America....
joined Canada. Although internally autonomous from 1867, and a separate kingdom with the Statute of Westminster 1931

Statute of Westminster 1931

The Statute of Westminster 1931 is an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which established a status of legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the British Empire and the United Kingdom, with a few residual exceptions....
, the last vestiges of constitutional dependency upon the United Kingdom were not severed until the Constitution Act of 1982 was passed by the British Parliament over the objections of the Province of Quebec.

The term British North America was first used informally in 1783, but it was uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), called the Durham Report. Formally, the British Colonies in North America were known as "British America

British America

For American people of British descent, see British American.British America consisted of the British Empire in continental North America in the 17th century and 18th century....
" and the "British West Indies

British West Indies

The term British West Indies refers to territories in and around the Caribbean which have been or were at one time colony by the United Kingdom....
" until 1783, and after that, "British North America" and the "British West Indies".

British North America

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