North America and The Caribbean
- Canada
- Monarch - King George V, King of Canada (1910–1936)
- Governor-General - Duke of Devonshire, Governor-General of Canada (1916–1921)
- Prime Minister - Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada (1911–1920)
- Costa Rica -
- Alfredo González Flores, President of Costa Rica (1914–1917)
- Federico Tinoco Granados, President of Costa Rica (1917–1919)
- Cuba - Mario García Menocal, President of Cuba (1913–1921)
- México - Venustiano Carranza, President of Mexico (1914–1920)
- Newfoundland
- Monarch - King George V, King of Newfoundland {1910-1936}
- Governor -
- Walter Edward Davidson, Governor of Newfoundland (1913–1917)
- Charles A. Harris, Governor of Newfoundland (1917–1922)
- Prime Minister - Edward Patrick Morris, Prime Minister of Newfoundland (1909–1917)
- United States - Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States (1913–1921)
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“The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (b. 1908)
“It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)