Whilst Canada was in the British Empire Britain was burdened with the main responsibility and expense for defending these territories.
Whilst Canada was in the British Empire Britain was burdened with the main responsibility and expense for defending these territories.
We gave them civilisation.....
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Canada, then described as being part of the British Empire, was on the side of the Allies.
Canada never really "joined" the British Empire. Rather the reverse, the British Empire acquired Canada in pieces, with no volition on the part of Canadians, either the original native inhabitants, or the contingent of New France settlers in the 18th century, whom the British conquered and occupied. Just as the United States was once a part of the British Empire, which was not a conscious act. The difference being that the United States separated from the Empire, in a revolution, whereas Canada more or less evolved as a distinct and sovereign country. And even the Empire evolved, world wide, into the Commonwealth of Nations, sharing the monarch, but really nothing else.
cocoa, palm oil, groundnuts
large profits from the slave trade
in 1947
the negatives are that they do not have their own monarch
British rule ended in the '50s. India is no longer part of the Empire. In fact the Empire itself has changed into the Commonwealth. South Africa, Australia, and Canada are now independent countries as are India and Pakistan. India is on its own.
Land, Tax, more knowledge taken from the people of Chinese [if they have some that the British did not], more CHEAP Labour, more resources...etc. etc.