Most "British" Ex-Colony In The Western Hemisphere?

Factual Questions
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I went to Bermuda expecting I’d find some colonial holdovers, or at least a decent pub or two in which to sip Samuel Smith Ale or Fuller’s. Admittedly Hamilton is just a giant cruise-ship dock (annexed to a kind of slum). But I was really disappointed not to be able to find a traditional pub – everywhere I went I was offered Heineken, Amstel, Amstel Light, Corona, and Bud – in bottles. (And yes, I’m aware from recent visits that Bud is actually wildly popular in London for some unfathomable reason, or rather due to mass advertising I guess).

Any ex-colonies/territories in the region that are more reminiscent of the Old Country in food/drink/culture?

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Canada?

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Victoria BC is pretty British-ish.

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There aren’t all that many Western Hemisphere ex-colonies really. The aforementioned Canada and Bermuda excepted, there are the various Caribbean Islands none of which strike me as particularly British in your terms. Ditto for Belize and Guyana. Perhaps the Falklands will be closest - it certainly has the weather and it has been less influenced, perhaps, by non-Brit cultures than the others.

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But located in British Columbia, which despite its name is almost but not quite entirely unlike Britain.

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Ireland?

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Try and tell the Irish.

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Not really western hemisphere, but otherwise I’d agree.

ETA how are we defining western hemisphere anyway?

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How about St. John’s in Newfoundland? Cobbled streets, lots of pubs - good place for a night out.

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West of Greenwich, East of the Int’l Date Line, and outside of the U.K.

I’d be interested too in hearing if various places in Africa, ME, Subcontinent, etc. had bastions of colonial culture, but it’s a bit far for a weekend pub crawl for me at the moment, so I tried to confine it to the Atlantic part of the world . . . .

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The Falklands is still a colony, or an overseas dependent territory, isn’t it?
I was in Barbados last week and the place names like Worthing and Hastings, as well as the terrible hotel breakfast were very British indeed, if not much else. :wink:

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Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island maybe?

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<puff> <puff> <cough> <cough> Yeah, it’s a little more on the Columbian side… <puff> <puff> <cough> <cough>

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That sounds like a couple of areas in Washington, DC.

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By which criteria, The Republic of Ireland does count. Its 8° West of Greenwich, a loooong way East of the International Date Line and is not part of the UK.

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Seriously, the densest concentration of British-type pubs, with actual UK-brewed swill on tap and actual pubbish-type atmosphere, that you’ll find in the Western Hemisphere would be in downtown Boston - the area around Faneuil Hall, just around the corner from the British colonial government building with the lion and unicorn statues on top.

Hamilton, Bermuda at least has a Marks & Spencer, though, give it that much.

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It’s easier to find an Irish pub in England than an English pub in Ireland with ye olde englishy ales and the like.