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Petite Savanne (French for "little savannah") was a village on the southeast side of Dominica It had an estimated population of 1,200 in 2015. [ 1 ] The region the town was built on features some of Dominica's steepest terrain; [ 2 ] the slopes were composed largely of silt and clay.
Roseau (Dominican Creole: Wozo) is the capital and largest city of Dominica, with a population of 14,725 as of 2011. [1] It is a small and compact urban settlement, in the Saint George parish and surrounded by the Caribbean Sea, the Roseau River and Morne Bruce.
Canefield is a town located on the west coast of Dominica, north of Roseau and south of Massacre, overlooking Pringle's Bay.The largest settlement in St. Paul Parish, it has a population of 2,803. [1]
The State House, located in Roseau, is the official residence of the president of Dominica. Previously it was used as the official residence of the colonial governors of Dominica. The residence of the British governors of the island, and for a time the French, is situated on a low hill to the south of the commercial center of Roseau.
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The village of Wesley is situated in an area that was once called Quarte de La Soie when the French occupied Dominica in the early 1700s. Following the British occupation of Dominica, the Estate, called Eden Estate was owned jointly by Joshua Powell and Thomas Hungerford Powell of the City of Bristol until their last known association in 1826. [3]
Mahaut is a village on the west coast of Dominica.It has a population of 2,399, which makes it the second largest commune in the parish of Saint Paul [1] and was home to Dominica Colgate-Palmolive (formerly Dominica Coconut Products) until the factory was closed in 2015 after Tropical Storm Erika.
Patrick Roland John (7 January 1938 – 6 July 2021) was the first Prime Minister of Dominica as well as its last Premier. He led Dominica to independence from the United Kingdom. He was leader of the Waterfront and Allied Workers' Union and mayor of Roseau before being elected to the legislature in 1970.