Page "History of Barbados" Paragraph 35

A number of proposals have been mooted in the past to have Barbados integrated with either neighboring countries or once even the Canadian Confederation.

To date all have failed, and one proposal even led to deadly riots in 1876 when Governor John Pope Hennessy tried to pressure Barbados ' politicians to integrate more firmly into the Windward Islands.

Governor Hennessy was quickly transferred from Barbados by the British Crown following the situation.

In 1884 attempts were then made by the influential Barbados Agricultural Society to have Barbados form a political association with the Canadian Confederation.

From 1958-1962 Barbados became one of the 10 states of the West Indies Federation.

Lastly in the 1990s, a plan was devised by the leaders of Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago to form a political association between those three governments.

Again this deal was never completed, following the loss of Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford in the Barbadian general elections.