By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.

In 1711 the city of Cap-Français was formerly established by Louis XIV and took over as capital of the colony from Port-de-Paix.

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, and formerly a British crown colony.

As a colony or other dependent state or territory lacks the authority to vest in a true head of state of its own, it either has no comparable office, simply receiving those roles exercised by the paramount powers ( in person or, most of the time, through an appointed representative, often styled governor or lieutenant-governor, but also various other titles, on the Cook Islands even simply King / Queen's Representative ) or has one, such as a formerly sovereign dynasty, but under a form of metropolitan guardianship, such as protection, vassal or tributary status.

Nigeria, formerly a colony, gained independence from Britain in 1960.

Western Sahara, formerly the Spanish colony of Spanish Sahara, is a disputed territory claimed by both the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front.

The city of Reggio Calabria, formerly the colony of Magna Grecia, has to consolidate the existing relations of cooperation with some Greek cities which are linked by common historical and cultural roots.

On 31 July 1667, the English and Dutch signed the Treaty of Breda, in which for the time being the status quo was respected: the Dutch could keep occupying Suriname and the British the formerly Dutch colony New Amsterdam ( modern day New York ).

The islands were formerly part of the British colony of the British Windward Islands from 1871 to 1958.

" When Earth tries to reclaim the colony, the revolutionaries plan to use in defense a smaller duplicate of the electromagnetic catapult formerly used to export wheat.

Initially a dispute between formerly Spanish Guatemala and the United Kingdom's colony of British Honduras, Guatemala continued its claim after Belizean independence in 1981 ; it recognized its neighbour's independence one decade later, in 1991.

* Taranto, Apulia, Italy ; on the site of the ancient Roman city Tarentum ; formerly the Greek colony Taras.

The treaty stipulated that New York ( formerly New Netherland ) would henceforth be an English possession and that Suriname, captured by the Dutch in 1667, would remain their colony, confirming the status quo of 1667.

The Post Roads were meant to connect the colony of New York, formerly New Amsterdam, with the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

On 8 January 1811, planters were alarmed by the German Coast Uprising led by Charles Deslondes, a free person of color from Haiti ( formerly the French colony of Saint-Domingue ).

The village was formerly the site of a village of the Oneida tribe, established in the beginning of the 18th century to move farther from attacks from the French colony of Quebec.

Generals Charles Lallemand and Antone Riguad, formerly of Napoleon ’ s Old Guard, headed a French expedition that established a colony twenty leagues from the Gulf of Mexico on the Trinity, near the present town of Liberty in 1818.

Safarditas are found particularly in the northern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, the American Southwest i. e., New Mexico, Arizona, and South Texas ( formerly part of Nuevo Santander, Spain / Mexico ), the Caribbean, and South America and this also includes Crypto-Jews that were brought into exile during the 15th century inquisition that took refuge from Southeast Asia e. g., in Northern Samar, the Philippines, as well as, Crypto-Jews found in Belmonte, Portugal and in the former Portuguese colony of Goa, India, where they were subjected to the Goa Inquisition.

In 1794, Saint-Domingue was invaded by British forces trying to capitalize on the unrest in the formerly wealthy colony.

It came at a difficult time in British foreign relations: events in the self-governing colony of Rhodesia ( formerly Southern Rhodesia ), which had been drifting towards crisis for some years, finally erupted into open rebellion.

British West Florida's government was based in Pensacola, and the colony included the part of formerly Spanish Florida west of the Apalachicola, plus the parts of French Louisiana taken by the British.

After World War I the League of Nations gave South-West Africa, formerly a German colony, to the United Kingdom as a mandate under the title of South Africa.

To the east of the village of Elounda lies the island of Spinalonga, formerly a Venetian fortress and a leper colony.

Under the Sovereign Council, power shifted, or rather, became more divided, so that “ what formerly constituted in great measure to the functions of the Governor, was given to the Council .” The Intendant received power to reestablish order and security and to carry out important responsibilities in governing the colony of New France.

Even though the stone had been around centuries and was known to both the Sumerians and the Egyptians, both who used the gem for decoration and for playing important parts in their religious ceremonies, any agate of this color from Sicily, once an ancient Greek colony, is called Greek agate.

Also that year, Claudius had founded a Roman colony and called the colony Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensis or Agrippinensium, today known as Cologne, after Agrippina who was born there.

In the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ) the vast majority of Dutch settlers were in fact Eurasians known as Indo-Europeans, formally belonging to the European legal class in the colony.

As the French colony of Middle Congo ( Moyen Congo ) also chose the name Republic of Congo upon receiving its independence, the two countries were more commonly known as Congo-Léopoldville and Congo-Brazzaville, after their capital cities.

Following the departure of the British, the French colony of Mauritius began marooning lepers on Diego Garcia, and in 1793 the French established a coconut plantation using slave labour, which also exported cordage made from coconut fiber, and sea cucumbers, known as a delicacy in the orient.

The Italians took advantage of disorder in northern Ethiopia following the death of Emperor Yohannes IV in 1889 to occupy the highlands and established their new colony, henceforth known as Eritrea, and received recognition from Menelik II, Ethiopia's new Emperor.

Three of them ( later to be known as Liberty, Black Tom and Ellis ) were given the name Oyster Islands by the settlers of New Netherland, the first European colony in the Mid-Atlantic states.

* 1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah ( known as Georgia Day ).

Funk Island was the largest known breeding colony.

The large all Gaulish colony became known as " Gallia " of the East, Roman writers calling its inhabitants Galli ( Gaul or Celt ).

Sometimes a head of state assumes office as a state becomes legal and political reality, before a formal title for the highest office is determined ; thus in the since 1 January 1960 independent republic Cameroon ( Cameroun, a former French colony ), the first President, Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo, was at first not styled président but ' merely ' known as Chef d ' état ( literal French for ' Head of State ') until 5 May 1960 ; in Uganda, military coup leader since 25 January 1971 Idi Amin was formally styled military head of State till 21 February 1971, only from then on regular ( but unconstitutional, not elected ) President.

A group of radical socialist Australians in the 1890s voluntarily went to create a failed master-planned community, known as Nueva ( New ) Australia ; and Elisabeth Nietzsche, a German racial ideologist and sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came to Paraguay in her attempt to build a colony, Nueva Germania ( Neues Deutschland ) devoted to a hypothetical pure white " Nordic " society in the 1890s.

The British colony would be officially designated Western Australia in 1832, but was known informally for many years as the Swan River Colony after the area's major watercourse.

Providence Plantations was the name of the colony founded by Roger Williams in the area now known as the City of Providence.

The living conditions are deplorable, human rights for the miners are few and a disease called " The Plague " is running rampant throughout the colony with no known antidote available-predominantly within the confines of the mine complex.

The first immigrants arrived at Holdfast Bay ( near the present day Glenelg ) in November 1836, and the colony was proclaimed on 28 December 1836, now known as Proclamation Day.

As a British crown colony, the island was known as Ceylon, and achieved independence under the name Dominion of Ceylon in 1948.

In the 1890 – 1930 era part of Toronto ' east-end district now known as " the Beach " changed from a " cottage colony " of summer second-homes into a metropolitan suburb dominated by the middle classes.

Altruism is known to increase from rarity when relatedness ( R ) exceeds the ratio of the cost ( C ) to the altruist ( in this case, the cell giving up its own reproduction by differentiating ), to the benefit ( B ) to the recipient of altruism ( the germ line of the colony, that reproduces as a result of the differentiation ), i. e. R > C / B ( see Hamilton's rule ).

They are known to demonstrate some individuality and working for the good of their colony, acting like one multicellular organism.

From the 1800s to the 1853 abolition of penal transportation ( known simply as " transportation "), Van Diemen's Land was the primary penal colony in Australia.

The only known wild populations of this species exist in two locations in Queensland, the Epping Forrest National Park, and a smaller colony being established by translocating wombats to the Richard Underwood Nature Refuge at Yarran Downs.

Later American English spellings, neger and neggar, prevailed in a northern colony, New York under the Dutch, and in metropolitan Philadelphia's Moravian and Pennsylvania Dutch communities ; the African Burial Ground in New York City originally was known by the Dutch name " Begraafplaats van de Neger " ( Cemetery of the Negro ); an early US occurrence of neger in Rhode Island, dates from 1625.