British North America

American  

noun

1. Canada.

2. all parts of the Commonwealth of Nations in or near North America.

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British North America British  

noun

1. (formerly) Canada or its constituent regions or provinces that formed part of the British Empire

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Example Sentences

Meanwhile, over in British North America, the colonists, too, were acutely aware of the issue of judicial independence.

From Slate

“Elections, especially of representatives and counsellors, should be annual, there not being in the whole circle of the sciences a maxim more infallible than this, ‘where annual elections end, there slavery begins,’” John Adams wrote in 1776 as British North America erupted into open conflict.

From Seattle Times

A little over 3.5 percent of the total, about 389,000 people, arrived on the shores of British North America and the Gulf Coast during those centuries when slave ships could find port.

From New York Times

In 1867, Britain’s Parliament passed, and Queen Victoria signed, the British North America Act creating the Dominion of Canada, which came into being the following July.

From Washington Times

Fitting indeed — except these words come from an account of how thousands of people migrated from 18th-century Europe to the New World, in “The Peopling of British North America,” published 35 years ago by the late historian Bernard Bailyn.

From Washington Post