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By order-in-council dated 23 June 1870, [13] the British government admitted the territory to Canada, under s. 146 of the Constitution Act, 1867, [14] effective 15 July 1870, subject to the making of treaties with the sovereign indigenous nations to provide their consent to the Imperial Crown to exercise its sovereignty pursuant to the ...
The British Arctic Territories were a region of British North America, composed of islands to the north of continental North America. They are now known as the Arctic Archipelago . The British claim to the area was based on the discoveries of Martin Frobisher (1535–1594) in the 16th century.
East India Company: A flag with red and white stripes and the flag of Great Britain in the canton. 1801–1858: East India Company: A flag with red and white stripes and the flag of the United Kingdom in the canton. 1858–1947: British India: Flag of the United Kingdom. 1880–1947: British India (Red Ensign) A Red Ensign defaced with the ...
A Union Jack defaced with the coat of arms of the British Antarctic Territory: 1990–present: Flag of the commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory: A design based on the Blue Ensign with a Union Jack in the union and wavy white lines going horizontally along the field, defaced with the coat of arms of the British Indian Ocean ...
The North-Western Territory was a region of British North America extant until 1870 and named for where it lay in relation to Rupert's Land.. Due to the lack of development, exploration, and cartographic limits of the time, the exact boundaries, ownership, and administration of the region were not precisely defined when the territory was extant.
George Vancouver explored Puget Sound in 1792. Vancouver claimed it for Great Britain on June 4, 1792, naming it for one of his officers, Lieutenant Peter Puget. Alexander Mackenzie was the first European to cross North America by land north of New Spain, [12] arriving at Bella Coola on what is now the central coast of British Columbia in 1793.
The explorations of James Cook and George Vancouver, and the concessions of Spain in 1792 established the British claim to the coast north of California.Similarly, British claims were established inland via the explorations of such men as Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser, Samuel Black, David Thompson, and John Finlay, and by the subsequent establishment of fur trading posts by the North ...
The flag of the British Antarctic Territory was granted on 21 April 1998. [1] It features the coat of arms granted on 1 August 1963, a year after the British Antarctic Territory, a British Overseas Territory, was created. Previously, the Territory was a part of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and used the same flag. [2]