
Canada’s Lost Caribbean Provinces
Commentary Imagine if, in addition to Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut, all north of 60, Canada also had tropical Overseas Territories in the Caribbean. It almost happened, once upon a time. Between 1917 and 1919, the British Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, and the Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Robert Borden, discussed transferring the entire British West Indies to Canada. The whole lot. Jamaica, the Turks and Caicos, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago: Had they joined back then as Territories of Canada, any of them could, in time, have become provinces in the federation, with great benefit all round....
