"Crown colony" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mountains of the province until at last they empty themselves into the Pacific Ocean. For many years Vancouver Island and the mainland, first known as New Caledonia, were under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company. Vancouver Island was nominally made a crown colony in 1849; that is, a colony without representative institutions, in which the government is carried on by a governor and council, appointed by the crown. The official authority continued from 1851 practically in the hands of the company's chief factor, Sir James Douglas, a man of ...
— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot
... built a fort there, introduced slaves and convicts, but they made no permanent settlements and, in 1710, it was abandoned. For a short time the island passed into the hands of the French East India Company, and later it became a crown colony. During the colonial wars between France and Great Britain, Mauritius was a source of much conflict. It was finally captured by the British in 1810; and by the Treaty of Paris in 1814, the British were definitely granted control of the island. Great Britain agreed, however, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 • Various
... to remark, that this and succeeding incidents occurred in the old Crown Colony days, before the diamond legislation was as strict ...
— The Firm of Girdlestone • Arthur Conan Doyle
... possesses the usual establishment of a Crown Colony, and the government is administered by a Governor, aided by a Legislative Council, of which he is the President, and which is composed of the Chief Justice, the Colonial Secretary, the Attorney-General, the Treasurer, and four unofficial members, ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
... business introduced. No promise of Philippine independence was given, yet the tenor of our whole policy toward the Filipinos, of official utterances and of public sentiment relating to them, was to the effect that we should never look upon any of the islands as a crown colony. ...
— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews |
