Initially, half of Connecticut was a part of the Dutch colony, New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.

Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

Initially he trained for a career in music and became so proficient on the tuba that he won a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy.

Initially concentrated mainly in big cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington, DC, and on the West Coast, radical feminist groups spread across the country rapidly from 1968 to 1972.

Initially modeled on the Anglican ideals of older, European institutions, the University of New Brunswick was founded in 1785 as the Academy of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Initially, British subjects from Australia made up the majority, but the establishment of the Caledonian Company of the New Hebrides in 1882 soon tipped the balance in favour of French subjects.

Initially, in May 1965, New Zealand provided one 4 gun artillery battery ( 140 men ) with two rifle companies of infantry, designated Victor and Whiskey companies, and an SAS troop arriving later.

Initially known as New Lancaster, and later shortened by city ordinance ( 1805 ), the town quickly grew ; formal incorporation as a city came in 1831.

Initially dubbed the " New Yardbirds " for the Scandinavian dates, the band soon became known as Led Zeppelin.

Initially working for an engineering firm, he returned to teaching again for a further six years in St. John ’ s Catholic School in Paterson, New Jersey.

Initially an agricultural service centre, it now has a growing and diverse economy and is the second fastest growing urban area in New Zealand.

Initially participating in genderfuck-style performances, RuPaul performed solo and in collaboration with other bands at several New York nightclubs, most notably the Pyramid Club.

Initially dubbed the " New Yardbirds " in 1968, the band soon came to be known as Led Zeppelin.

Initially the Confederate Army had success in their attempts to gain control of New Mexico, but following the Battle of Glorieta Pass Confederate soldiers were forced to retreat.

Initially unable to play his bass, he rebuilt his strength with intense woodshedding and practice as well as live club gigs where he performed sets of Stooges covers with Hellride in California and with J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr. drummer Murph in New York under the name Hellride East.

Initially post-processualism was primarily a reaction to and critique of processual archaeology, a paradigm developed in the 1960s by ' New Archaeologists ' such as Lewis Binford, and which had become dominant in Anglophone archaeology by the 1970s.

Initially Māori only, then bicultural with colonial and rural values, now New Zealand is a cosmopolitan culture that reflects its changing demographics, is conscious of the natural environment, and is an educated, developed Western society.

Initially open to teams from pubs within the greater Auckland region it is now open to teams from throughout New Zealand.

Initially, the press praised the raids ; the Washington Post said, " There is no time to waste on hairsplitting over infringement of liberty ", and The New York Times said the injuries inflicted upon the arrested were " souvenirs of the new attitude of aggressiveness which had been assumed by the Federal agents against Reds and suspected-Reds.

Initially plans called for a transporter bridge further downstream near New Farm.

Initially, Chancellor and Brinkley both reported from New York City, but Brinkley later returned to Washington.

Initially, Tibbets was unfamiliar with even the concept of an atomic bomb, and was quoted in a 1946 article in The New Yorker saying, " I will go only so far as to say that I knew what an atom was.

Initially, these were built to match the ancient buildings ( e. g. the New Kings lecture rooms and Elphinstone Hall ), but later ones from the 1960s onward were constructed in brutalist style.

Initially, his ideas had involved running a school in the midst of ' life-conditions ' in Kingston with two dozen students, but contact with a young representative of the New Age Movement in the USA persuaded him to think in terms of larger numbers and a relatively isolated locale in the countryside.

Initially he had appeared to favour the Māori, he became neutral and then began to support the claims of the New Zealand Company.

Initially in reserve to the main breakout from Anzac by units of the New Zealand and Australian Division, the 38th and 39th Brigades were sent in as reinforcements as the attack stalled.

Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996.

Initially, Continental Airlines was awarded routes to Australia and New Zealand with stops.

Initially a rebadged locally assembled Plymouth Valiant from the U. S., the Valiant range was sold throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as South Africa.

Initially the brigades were arranged by combining the two extra infantry brigades into the " New Zealand Division " and the mounted brigades into the " Mounted Division " but this was deemed unsatisfactory.

Initially, the commander of the Task Force – the military element of the Mission – was Lieutenant Colonel John Frewen, OC 2 RAR, and the deputy commander Major Vern Bennett, New Zealand Army, from Linton.

Initially Anthony Lee had invested into the New Zealand Knights, with his company's ( Total Football Ltd ) 20 % shareholding second only to majority owner Brian Katzen's Octagon Sport ( later included Maurice Cox as partner ) with 60 %.

Initially expecting a standard camera test, when Jim Jannard, Jarred Land and Deanan Dasilva from Red arrived in New Zealand, they were surprised to learn that Peter Jackson intended to shoot a ten minute short set in World War I featuring battles in trenches and in the air.

Initially used to mop up behind the two brigades bearing the brunt of the New Zealand attack, it was decided that the battalion would be used for Operation Supercharge.

Initially only available in Spain, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the brand saw its popularity increase significantly in recent years and is now available across the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and the United States.

Initially conceived by New Zealand live deer recovery pioneer, Sir Tim Wallis, as a display day for him to play with his collection of World War II aircraft, the show has grown into a major institution.

Initially fertilizer and seed were dropped together ( 1939 ), using a window mounted chute on a Miles Whitney Straight, but by the end of the 1940s different mixtures of fertilizer were being distributed from hoppers installed in war surplus Grumman Avengers and C-47 Dakotas, as well as some privately operated de Havilland Tiger Moths in New Zealand, and the practise was being adopted experimentally in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Initially it was a pejorative term for anti-government agitation, while contemporary republicanism in New Zealand focuses on the concepts of independence and constitutional reform, with opposition focusing on the indigenous aspects of the monarchy.

Initially a milita, under the instruction of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Henry Banks they formed the core of the New Zealand Army following successful service in the Boer Wars.

Initially they captured fawns, hand-raised them and domesticated them: the dawn of deer farming occurred in New Zealand in the 1970s.

Initially they had been destined to join the rest of the 2nd New Zealand Division in the Middle East, but due to concerns about a possible invasion of the United Kingdom by the German Wehrmacht, the decision was made to divert the division's second echelon, a brigade-sized force that included the 28th ( Māori ) Battalion, to Britain to help bolster the island's defences.