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  • the British Colonist (later the Daily Colonist), established in 1858 by Amor De Cosmos who was later British Columbia's second Premier. The British Colonist...
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  • close to Governor James Douglas and the other of reformers led by the British Colonist editor Amor De Cosmos. The reform faction lost in most cases and...
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  • Franklin & Company took out full page adds in the daily newspaper, The British Colonist, to advertise items up for auction which usually included properties...
    9 KB (1,078 words) - 17:29, 13 September 2024
  • settled in Victoria, British Columbia and was editor and proprietor of the British Colonist. He organized and was first president of the Victoria fire department...
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    laws of Denmark-Norway's neutrality however the islands had helped the British colonist in America sealing a friendliness between the two colonies, and the...
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    island were merged with Sinhalese areas to form British Ceylon. The British colonist operated British India and British Ceylon as separate colonies, laying...
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    is not used in Indonesia itself. In the early twentieth century, the British colonist Charles Hose described Kalimantan as being home to a "Klemantan people"...
    22 KB (1,029 words) - 02:13, 4 September 2024
  • Street. Franklin & Company ran full-page ads in the daily newspaper, The British Colonist, to list items for auction: real estate, furniture, cattle, and vehicles...
    14 KB (1,285 words) - 03:08, 4 September 2024
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    The British Colonist, Oct. 22, 1869, p. 3. "Serious Defalcations," The British Colonist (Victoria), Jan. 11, 1870, p. 3. "Victoria Water Works," The British...
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  • February 1866 to be fitted out for the accommodation of passengers. The British Colonist newspaper reported "The steamer Labouchere, under the command of...
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    Hudson's Bay Company. On September 12, 1861, the Victoria newspaper, the British Colonist, reported a rumor that gold had been discovered on the Stikine River...
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    was erected in front of the courthouse. The archway was lauded by the British Colonist newspaper as "the grandest object amongst all our displays, in or...
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    castes play in India's political system was institutionalised by the British colonist where upper-caste dominance within government was perpetuated and...
    59 KB (6,822 words) - 10:51, 9 August 2024
  • professional question/schism was being debated in most athletic clubs. The British Colonist calls some of these aggregations of local sides competing in the...
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    Road. ad seeking hundred of men to work on building the road from the British Colonist of 1862 http://ruralbc.blogspot.ca/2012/04/150-years-processing-of-tendering-to...
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  • explored the Peace, Nation and Smoky Rivers, as reported in a column in the British Colonist, December 15, 1863. They prospected on Germansen Creek in the Omineca...
    4 KB (498 words) - 22:22, 29 February 2024
  • during first decade or so after the Emergency were sympathetic to the British/Colonist/Loyalist point of view. The negative publicity put pressure on the...
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  • companion, 1891. p. 369. "John P. Booth Has Passed Away" (PDF). The British Colonist. February 27, 1902. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on October...
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    1842 and he died there two years later at the age of 72 in Woodcot. The British Colonist paid tribute to Wood as one of Toronto's most distinguished founding...
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  • Empire. After the partnership ended in 1853, with partners, he bought the British Colonist from Hugh Scobie's widow, which had briefly been named The Scotsman...
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