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British America (often referred to as Colonial America), consisted of the English and later British Empire in continental North America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Formally, the British Colonies in North America were known as British America and the British West Indies until 1776, when the United States of America declared their independence. After that, British North America (or, simply but not inclusively, Canada) were used to describe the remainder of Britain's continental North American possessions. The term "British North America" was first used informally in 1783, but it was uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), called the Durham Report.

British America gained large amounts of new territory following the Treaty of Paris which ended Britain's involvement in the Seven Years' War. At the start of the American War of Independence in 1775, the British Empire included twenty colonies north and east of New Spain (Present day areas of Mexico and the Western United States). East Florida and West Florida were ceded to Spain in the Treaty of Paris (1783) which ended the American Revolution, and then ceded by Spain to the United States in 1819. All but one of the remaining colonies of British North America apart from the British West Indies united together from 1867 to 1873 forming the Dominion of Canada. Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949.

The Thirteen Colonies that formed the original states of the United States of America:

New England Colonies

• Province of Massachusetts Bay
• Province of New Hampshire
• Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
• Connecticut Colony

Middle Colonies

• Province of New York
• Province of New Jersey
• Province of Pennsylvania
• Delaware Colony

Southern Colonies

(Virginia and Maryland may also be grouped as the Chesapeake Colonies)

• Province of Maryland
• Colony of Virginia
• Province of North Carolina
• Province of South Carolina
• Province of Georgia

Territories west of the Thirteen Colonies

• Indian Reserve
• Province of Quebec (only the southwestern part was taken)

Other British Loyalist colonies (1763–1783) that eventually became part of the United States of America, which were ceded by Britain to Spain in 1783:

• Province of East Florida
• Province of West Florida

The colonies remaining under British rule after 1783:

British North America

• Province of Nova Scotia
• Colony of Newfoundland
• Province of Quebec (the south west portion was lost to the newly created United States)
• Island of St. John
• Rupert's Land

Divisions of the Colony of the Leeward Islands

• Saint Christopher (de facto Capital)
• Antigua
• Barbuda
• British Virgin Islands
• Montserrat
• Nevis
• Anguilla

Island of Jamaica and its Dependencies

• Island of Jamaica
• Settlement of Belize in the Bay of Honduras
• Mosquito Coast
• Bay Islands
• Cayman Islands

Other Possessions in the British West Indies

• Colony of the Bahama Islands
• Colony of Bermuda
• Island of Barbados
• Island of Grenada
• Island of St. Vincent (detached from Grenada in 1776)
• Island of Tobago (detached from Grenada in 1768)
• Island of Dominica (detached from Grenada in 1770)

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• British colonization of the Americas
• British Empire
• British North America Acts
• British North America
• British West Indies
• British overseas territories
• Former colonies and territories in Canada