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British connection 
1 Obs. British ancestry.
- 1838 The only means that occur to us are, first, the Legislative union of the two Provinces, by which a real majority of "British connexion" would return a British majority to the United House of Assembly.
2 Hist. the relationship that existed between Canada as a colony and Great Britain as the mother country.
See also: Connectionist
- 1832 I trust that the enemies of Britain and British connexion have run their race and that another year or two will extinguish them entirely.
- 1963 Reforms many of them desired . . . but they wished to achieve them by British methods and within the British connection.
- 1838 The only means that occur to us are, first, the Legislative union of the two Provinces, by which a real majority of "British connexion" would return a British majority to the United House of Assembly.