The keepers of statistics in the colonies were not much interested in the native population but they kept careful notes about the lives of white colonists. About half were Catholic and half ...

In the east, Newfoundland sat in isolation, and the separate colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island had little to do with one another. In the centre, was the large ...

During that time, the prevailing economic wisdom was that the empire's colonies could supply raw materials and resources to the mother country and then be used as export markets for the finished ...