Colonial Governors By Year
This is a list of the governors of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies in each year. Where applicable, native rulers are also listed.
| Leaders by year |
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| State Religious International organization Colonial governors |
| Incumbents |
| British Canadian |
| Lists of office-holders |
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“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has had less authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”
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“Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.”
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