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Southern Nigeria was a British protectorate in the coastal areas of modern-day Nigeria formed in 1900 from the union of the Niger Coast Protectorate with territories chartered by the Royal Niger Company below Lokoja on the Niger River. The Lagos colony was later added in 1906, and the territory was…

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Oil Rivers was an area comprising the delta of the Niger River in modern Nigeria. The Oil Rivers Protectorate was established by the British in 1884. Its name derives from the palm oil that was the chief product of the area. It was renamed the Niger Coast Protectorate in 1893…

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Prince Edward Island is a province of Canada and one of the three Maritime provinces. Part of the traditional lands of the Mi’kmaq, it was colonized by the British in the 1700s. It was federated into Canada as a province in 1873. Its capital is Charlottetown. The island has several…

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New Brunswick is one of four Atlantic provinces on the east coast of Canada. New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled by Europeans. In 1784, after an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War settled in the area, the province was…

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Nova Scotia is a province in eastern Canada. It is the most populous of Canada’s four Atlantic provinces. The land that comprises what is now Nova Scotia has been inhabited by the indigenous Miꞌkmaq people for thousands of years. France’s first settlement in North America, Port-Royal, was established in 1605…

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Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. Sixteen ethnic groups inhabit Sierra Leone, the two largest and most influential being the Temne and Mende peoples. About 2% of the country’s population are Krio, descendants of freed African American and…

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Canada is a country in the northern part of North America consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast.…

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Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. Lithuania is one of the Baltic states. For centuries, the south eastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, the Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas and the…

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