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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jimski, post: 8495890, member: 77373&quot;]Meat man</p><p>Actually, it was Britain that allowed its colony of Nova Scotia to have a limited self-rule called “responsible government” in 1848.&nbsp;&nbsp; Nova Scotia was the first colony in the British Empire to be granted responsible government.&nbsp; More details can be found in the links below.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font size="3">From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion</a></font></p><p><b><font size="3"><i><u>Responsible government is</u></i></font></b><i><font size="3"> self-government in the form of a parliamentary government. In the British Empire, “responsible government” only applied to internal colony affairs. Britain still remained responsible for foreign affairs, defense and international trade. </font></i></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_government#:~:text=The%20first%20instance%20of%20responsible,the%20efforts%20of%20Joseph%20Howe" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_government#:~:text=The%20first%20instance%20of%20responsible,the%20efforts%20of%20Joseph%20Howe" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_government#:~:text=The first instance of responsible,the efforts of Joseph Howe</a>.</font></p><p><b><font size="3"><i><u>From the middle of the 19th century, the United Kingdom began to introduce systems of responsible government to the colonial governments of its settler colonies</u></i></font></b><i><font size="3"> including in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. These systems were heavily based upon the system that had developed in the United Kingdom itself with a bicameral legislature and an executive responsible to the Lower House. …</font></i></p><p><font size="3"><b><i><u>The first instance of responsible government in the British Empire</u></i></b><i> outside of the United Kingdom itself was achieved by the <b><u>colony of Nova Scotia</u></b> in January–February 1848 </i>…</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Below is a link to one of my favorite sites for info about the British Empire.&nbsp; The link is to a table listing all members of the British Empire and gives their Entering and Exiting date.&nbsp; There is a link in the table to an informative page on that member. <a href="https://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/colonies.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/colonies.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/colonies.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a copy of the info in the table for Nova Scotia:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1503338[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/file:///C:/Users/james/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>If you follow the Nova Scotia link in the Name column, you can find what occurred at the dates.&nbsp; So you don’t have to do the search to find out.&nbsp; The Nova Scotia colony, “New Scotland” colony, was founded in 1621, but the territory was given to the French in 1632, after the Anglo-French War of 1627-29 .&nbsp; It was re-acquired in 1713 after the Treaty of Utrecht following the War of Spanish Succession.&nbsp; The colony of Nova Scotia was granted Dominion status in 1846.&nbsp; The Dominion of Nova Scotia became a member of the Dominion of Canada in 1867.&nbsp; Thereafter Nova Scotia’s membership in the British Empire is that of Canada’s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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