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British-American Hist. 
adj. of or pertaining to British America and, after 1776, to Canada.
- 1765 It is now the general Opinion, that should the British American Colonies be allowed to send Members to Parliament, such Gentlemen must be Natives of the Province they represent. . . .
- 1959 With them they brought, along with their loyalty to the Crown, most of the habits, virtues and limitations acquired by their ancestors in the first century and a half of the British-American experience.
- 1765 It is now the general Opinion, that should the British American Colonies be allowed to send Members to Parliament, such Gentlemen must be Natives of the Province they represent. . . .