crown colony

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a British colony controlled by the British Crown, represented by a governor

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The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world. Michel Chossudovsky

British authority was fully restored in July 1971 and in 1980 Anguilla was finally allowed to secede from Saint Kitts and Nevis and become a separate British Crown colony (now a British overseas territory ). Source: Internet

In 1965, during a three-month visit to the islands, futurist Donald Prell prepared for the then crown colony Governor General, an economic report containing a scenario for the future of the economy. Source: Internet

British rule, a Crown colony, 1834–1981 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the India Act in 1833, a provision of which transferred control of St Helena from the East India Company to the Crown with effect from 2 April 1834. Source: Internet

Return to Crown colony South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland in 1885. Source: Internet

The Chinese represented by Philip Lee who part of the resistance movement against the Japanese eventually support the transfer of power to the Crown colony. Source: Internet

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