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The Times Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. It was formed by the September 2, 1980 merger [ 2 ] of the Victoria Daily Times , established in 1884, and the British Colonist (later the Daily Colonist ), established in 1858 by Amor De Cosmos who was later British Columbia's second Premier .
Colonists from Europe saw the American landscape as wild, savage, dark, a waste, and thus needed to be tamed in order for it to be safe and habitable. Once cleared and settled, these areas were depicted as "Eden itself." [94] The advent of European colonization resulted in the disruption of existing social structures in indigenous lands.
Painting of John Smith and colonists landing in Jamestown. On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River. It became the first long-term English settlement in North America.
British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland, then further south at Roanoke and Jamestown, Virginia, and more substantially with the founding of the Thirteen Colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America.
The Colonist, a pub in Norwood, Adelaide, Australia; Colonist, a British schooner launched in 1861 and sunk in 1890; Colonist car, a type of railway passenger coach designed to provide inexpensive long-distance transportation for immigrants; Colonists, an EP by Nero's Day at Disneyland
Castle Island's Fort in Dorchester (now South Boston) where Clapp was stationed Coat of Arms of Roger Clapp. Roger Clapp (1609–1690) was an early English colonist who settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts and served as a military and political leader in early colonial Massachusetts.
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Coat of Arms of Robert Sedgwick. He was the son of William Sedgwick of London, and brother of English priest William Sedgwick.He has been identified with the Sedgwick who came over to New England in 1635, in the ship Truelove, aged 24, although in the record of the custom house his name is written 'Jo.' instead of 'Ro.'