The 19th century marked the full flower of the British Empire. Administration and policy changed during the century from the haphazard arrangements of the 17th and 18th centuries to the sophisticated system characteristic ofJoseph Chamberlain’stenure(1895–1900) in theColonial Office. That office, wh...
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The St. Lawrence Lowlands extend northeastward from Lake Ontario to the ocean along the boundary with Canada. Within this area are three subdivisions: a flat to gently rolling strip of land along the St. Lawrence River; a range of hills south and east of the plain; and, farther south and...
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St. Peter’s Episcopal Church (1859), and theJoseph HenryMemorial (originally Albany Academy; completed 1817). The focal point of the city is the Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza (completed 1978), facing Capitol Park and embracing a building complex of government, cultural, and...
Brantford, city, seat (1852) of Brant county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Grand River. It originated as Brant’s Ford, named for Joseph Brant, the famous Mohawk chief who was granted the site in 1784 for the settlement of the Six Nations (Iroquo
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The loss of Britain’s 13 American colonies in 1776–83 was compensated by new settlements in Australia from 1788 and by the spectacular growth of Upper Canada (now Ontario) after the emigration of loyalists from what had become the United States. The Napoleonic Wars provided further additions ...
Of the many other islands in the group, the Michigan island of Drummond and the Ontario islands of St. Joseph and Cockburn are the more important. All the islands are underlain by dolomite and limestone of Silurian origin. Because of glacial erosion, many of the islands have extensive areas ...