In settler colonies of colonial Africa, sharecropping was a feature of the agricultural life.
In settler colonies, a higher proportion of railway workers was white.
Increasing degrees of autonomy were granted to its white settler colonies, some of which were reclassified as dominions.
It is used to distinguish settler colonies from resource extraction colonies.
Smaller settler colonies also established in Jamaica and West Indies in general.
It is difficult to determine the nature of the Minoan presence on the Cyclades: settler colonies, protectorate or trading post.
They are both independent former settler colonies of Britain from which they have inherited many political traditions.
In the 20th century, nations like the "settler colonies" of Australia, Canada and New Zealand had a semi-peripheral status.
Great Britain attempted to follow the model it had for its earlier settler colonies of creating independent commonwealth realms still linked under the same monarchy.
Being one of the smallest nations in the world it was in fact impossible for the Netherlands to even attempt to establish a typical settler colony.