In 1996 it amalgamated with Queens Municipal District to form the Region of Queens Municipality.
This used to be Melcombe Regis, until it amalgamated with Weymouth, to the south, in 1571.
In 1883 it amalgamated with Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr's Boeren Beschermings Vereeniging ("Farmer's Protection Association").
A planned town, incorporated in 1955 and named for a local brook, it became a city in 1956 when it amalgamated with the adjacent communities of Town Site, Corner Brook East and West, Curling, and Humbermouth.
It amalgamated with the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1846.
This vision was evidently influential on the establishment of the Australian National University (ANU) in 1946, the only research-only university in the country (although in 1960 it amalgamated with Canberra University College to offer undergraduate courses).
Its locomotives and rolling stock were built and maintained at Swindon Works but other workshops were acquired as it amalgamated with other railways, including the Shrewbury companies' Stafford Road works at Wolverhampton, and the South Devon's workshops at Newton Abbot.
It was disbanded for a final time in 1987, when it was amalgamated with the 10th Battalion, Royal South Australia Regiment to form the 10th/27th Battalion, Royal South Australia Regiment.
It remained on the Australian order of battle until 1987 when it was amalgamated with the 17th Battalion, to form the 2nd/17th Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, a unit which remains part of the Australian Army Reserve today.
In 1886 it again achieved separate status under a British governor, and in 1906 it was amalgamated with the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria.
