were only drained later. British Guiana (before 1793 part of Dutch Guyana): Pomeroon (colony) (70 miles NW of Georgetown) 165?: Dutch, 1689:abandoned after...

Wikidata Texts on Wikisource: "Georgetown, capital of British Guiana". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921. "Georgetown". The New Student's Reference Work...

sugar. Georgetown was the site of a significant slave rebellion in 1823. In the 1880s gold and diamond deposits were discovered in British Guiana, including...

British Guiana 1c magenta is regarded by many philatelists as the world's most famous rare stamp. It was issued in limited numbers in British Guiana (now...

trade union, the British Guiana Labour Union, and was elected to Georgetown City Council in 1953. In the 1953 British Guiana general election on 27 April...

(/ˌdɛməˈrɛərə/; Dutch: Demerary, [ˌdeːməˈraːri]) is a historical region in the Guianas, on the north coast of South America, now part of the country of Guyana...

St. George's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Georgetown, Guyana. The church is of Gothic revival timber construction and reaches a height of 43.5...

organized in Georgetown, Guyana in 1980. In 2022, there were 8,942 members in 19 congregations. The first members of the French Guiana were baptized...

ISBN 978-1-84668-252-0. Clementi, Cecil (1915). The Chinese in British Guiana (PDF). Georgetown, British Guiana: The Argosy Company Limited. Archived (PDF) from the original...

the British Guiana Railway System – Georgetown to Mahaica, Part 1, Shammane Joseph, Stabroek News, 2008-12-25. History of the British Guiana Railway System...

existed in British Guiana in 1796, and continued for a number of years. Postage stamps of Britain were used in those days at Georgetown (Demerara) and Berbice...

from 1950 to 1955. Born in Georgetown, British Guiana, Crane was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of British Guiana in 1919, and took a London...

sum of £7,000 to enable the construction of a public library in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), in 1907. The initiative was part of a Caribbean-wide...

shootings of five Indo-Guyanese workers at Enmore, close to Georgetown, the PAC and the Guiana Industrial Workers' Union (GIWU) organized a large and peaceful...

Chinese-Guianese member of both the British Guiana Legislative and Executive Councils. Wong was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, the eldest son of a wealthy Chinese...

The Georgetown Seawall Bandstand is an iron bandstand that is situated on the western end of Georgetown Seawall in Guyana. It is one of three bandstands...

Bachelor of Science degree. After returning to British Guiana, Jagan established a practice in Georgetown on 68 Main Street. During this time, he began to become...

the Biblical Museum there. In 1907 he served as American Consul at Georgetown, Guiana. Merril, S. (1881). East of the Jordan. New York: C. Scribner's Sons...

in Guiana and on the Orinoco During the Years 1835–1839 (Georgetown: The Argosy Company, 1931). Robert Schomburgk, A Description of British Guiana, Geographical...

Barros (2003) Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924, McGill-Queen's Press, p25...

2020. "Volume 659". Hansard. 8 May 1962. Retrieved 20 June 2020. "Georgetown, Guiana – The Riots of February 1962". Naval Historical Society of Australia...

The Argosy was a newspaper published in Georgetown, Demerara, in British Guiana (later Guyana) from 2 October 1880 to 30 March 1907. It became the Weekly...

American kata championship in 1978. Awarded The French Guiana Medal of Service in 1996. Georgetown, Guyana Mayor's Award in 2009. Member of The Order of...

engineering, defence, and slavery. He died of an illness on 4 March 1838 in Georgetown, Guiana and his son James Robert Carmichael became the second baronet. Vetch...

Guyana Botanical Gardens is a tropical botanical garden in Georgetown, Guyana. It is next to the Guyana Zoo and Castellani House. It includes the Seven...

Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana was established in Georgetown, British Guiana, modern Guyana, on 18 March 1844. It acquired its...

office of WWF Guianas is located in Paramaribo, Suriname. Country offices are also located in Georgetown, Guyana, and Cayenne, French Guiana. Laurent Kelle...

government surveyor to the colony of British Guiana. Brown and his partner James Sawkins had arrived in Georgetown in 1867, and while they did some of their...

the improvement of the Georgetown-Albina road, which includes a bridge linking Albina with Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana over the Marowijne River...

the Governor of Barbados in 1949–51, and the colonial Governor of British Guiana in 1953–55. On 9 October, 1953, upon instruction from Winston Churchill...