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Early British North America, still at the pioneer stage before mid nineteenth century, was a frontier creation because the people and institutions were moulded by an environment unique to the colonies. This essay seeks to examine how, despite Britain=s attempt to control the frontier territory, various aspects of early British North America=s the environment, specifically the abundance of land which led to a diverse ethnic composition, started a cascade of developments towards a …

…developments that could only occur in the colony since they were the result/consequence of certain events unique to the frontier. The fate of the frontier, therefore, was determined by the frontier no matter how much the mother country tried to interfere. Land and ethnic composition were perhaps the most important factors in its creation because they spurred a chain of events that created a very specific type of Community in what is now Canada.