DCHP-3

British connection

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1 — Obs.

British ancestry.

Quotations

1838
The only means that occur to us are, first, the Legislative union of the two Provinces, by which a real majority of "British connexion" would return a British majority to the United House of Assembly.
2 — Hist.

the relationship that existed between Canada as a colony and Great Britain as the mother country.

Quotations

1832
I trust that the enemies of Britain and British connexion have run their race and that another year or two will extinguish them entirely.
1963
Reforms many of them desired . . . but they wished to achieve them by British methods and within the British connection.