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British North America Hist. 
1 that part of North America that ultimately came to be called Canada.
- 1825 The Subscriber has been requested by the Society lately formed in Glasgow for promoting the moral and religious interests of the Scottish settlers in British North America to make it known . . . that they will be happy to open a correspondence with any body of Settlers. . . .
- 1955 There are many other attractions however such as a long and colorful history dating back to discovery of British North America. . . .
2 a proposed name for a federal union of the provinces of British North America, now Canada.
- 1849 The name of the Canadas to be superceded . . . and the two provinces to be re-divided into the Provinces of Quebec, Montreal, Kingston, and Toronto, which with the Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, and Newfoundland, will in one Federal Union go under the name of British North America.
- 1825 The Subscriber has been requested by the Society lately formed in Glasgow for promoting the moral and religious interests of the Scottish settlers in British North America to make it known . . . that they will be happy to open a correspondence with any body of Settlers. . . .