Adventure Quote by Harry Johnston

The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than…

— Henry David Thoreau

Before they became Americans, most white inhabitants of the 13 colonies considered themselves British. It was predictable, therefore, that they would lust after empire,…

— Linda Colley

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

— June Callwood

About half of the loyalists who left the United States ended up going north to Canada, settling in the province of Nova Scotia and…

— Rachel Martin

I'm originally from Nova Scotia.

— Anne Murray

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain,…

— Henry David Thoreau

England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America,…

— Fidel Castro

“The solution, Britain and its colonial leaders decided, was to import people who were loyal - but not necessarily inventive or talented or ambitious.…

— Doug Saunders

How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States? I mean,…

— John Ralston Saul

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

— Tony Benn

The Canadian risings of the 1830s obliged the men in London to think much harder about settler self-government.

— Linda Colley