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British North America: Encyclopedia - British North America

By 1763, British North America included 19 British colonies and territories on the continent of North America. Increasing friction between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies lead to the American Revolutionary War (starting in 1775) and the formation of the United States of America in 1776. Later, most of British North America gradually consolidated into the Canadian Confederation under the British North America Act, beginning with the union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the united Province of Canada ...

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British North America - List of colonies in British North America in 1763

British North America - BNA colonies after American Revoultion

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British North America: Encyclopedia - British North America

British North America

By 1763, British North America included 19 British colonies and territories on the continent of North America. Increasing friction between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies lead to the American Revolutionary War (starting in 1775) and the formation of the United States of America in 1776.

Later, most of British North America gradually consolidated into the Canadian Confederation under the British North America Act, beginning with the union of Lower Canada and Upper Canada into the united Province of Canada followed in 1867 by the confederation of the Canadas with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the addition of Manitoba in 1870, British Columbia in 1871, Prince Edward Island in 1873, Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905, and most recently Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949.

After the American Revolutionary War, the term described only the colonies of the British Empire in North America that did not rebel against the British Empire and join the new nation of the United States of America.

British North America stood in contrast to the French North American colonies, Russian North America (Alaska and parts of California) and Spanish North America.

British North America - List of colonies in British North America in 1763

The Thirteen Colonies which formed the United States:

Connecticut Colony
Delaware Colony
Province of Georgia
Province of Maryland
Province of Massachusetts Bay (including present-day Maine)
Province of New Hampshire (permanently separated from Massachusetts Bay in 1691)
Province of New York
Province of New Jersey
Province of North Carolina
Province of Pennsylvania
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Province of South Carolina
Colony and Dominion of Virginia

Other colonies:

Nova Scotia (separated from Massachusetts Bay in 1696 and at times a French possession)
Newfoundland
Province of Quebec
Prince Edward Island
Rupert's Land
East Florida
West Florida

British colonization of the Americas, Thirteen Colonies, British Empire