Sentence examples for crown colonies from inspiring English sources
noun
Plural of crown colony
Until 1983, they were known as crown colonies and the Queen remains head of state.
St Helena is one of 14 British Overseas Territories, formerly known as Crown Colonies.
In July 1946 both Sarawak and North Borneo were made British crown colonies.
He is the last of Britain's vice-regal figures, in the last of its major Crown Colonies.
Over more than a century, the home government had reduced most of the settlements to Crown colonies with royally appointed governors.
We are deeply embarrassed by the confused, shortsighted "vision" that the Austrian government hysterically chose to impose on the western Balkans (her former "crown colonies"?).
As colonial secretary, he helped create the Crown Colony of British Columbia in 1858".
It's the smallest Crown Colony in the Commonwealth - with its own colonial govt., stamps police force & frontier.
In 1830 Gibraltar became a British crown colony.
Two years later Cyprus was officially declared a crown colony.
(In 1858 British Columbia also was made a crown colony).
