British Leeward Islands (1871-1909)
British Leeward Islands (1909-1940)
The British Leeward Islands (English: British Leeward Islands) is a former British colony located in the eastern Caribbean Sea that existed between the 17th and 19th centuries. Including Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Dominica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitts and the British Virgin Islands.
British Windward Islands (1940-1959)
The British Windward Islands were the administrative districts of the British colonies of the Windward Islands of the West Indies, which existed between 1833 and 31 December 1959 and consisted of Grenada, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados (seat of the Governor's House in 1885 and restored to independence after 1885), Tobago (until it was incorporated into Trinidad in 1889) and Dominica (joined in 1940 and was formerly part of the British Leeward Islands).
British Dominica (1805-1978)
Commonwealth of the West Indies (1958-1962)
The Federation of the West Indies (also known as the West Indian Federation) was a federation of the Caribbean Sea that briefly existed from January 3, 1958 to May 31, 1962. The Commonwealth consists of several British colonies, including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, and the islands of the Leeward and Windward Islands, with its capital in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The British government expects the federation to become a full political entity, and then a single state independent of the United Kingdom, as Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Commonwealth of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Prior to this, however, the Confederation had collapsed due to internal political conflicts, and the debate was about how to govern or operate effectively.
Commonwealth of Dominica (1978–present)
The coat of arms of Dominica is a coat of arms, divided into four parts by a cross, depicting a coconut, a frog, a banana and a sailboat. On the shield is a lion on the run. The left and right sides of the coat of arms are guarded by two emperor parrots. The ribbon reads, "We love the earth under the protection of a merciful God."