<Ul> <Li> Ontario, separated from Quebec in 1791 as the Province of Upper Canada until 1841, when it became Canada West in the Province of Canada . </Li> <Li> Province of Canada combined the colonies of Quebec (Lower Canada) and Ontario (Upper Canada) from 1841 to 1867 . </Li> <Li> Colony of Vancouver Island, founded by the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Victoria in 1843 . Received royal charter for the Island as a colony in 1849, and merged with the colony of British Columbia in 1866 . </Li> <Li> Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands, founded in 1852, merged with the Colony of Vancouver Island in 1863 . </Li> <Li> Colony of British Columbia, also called the Mainland Colony or the Gold Colony, founded in 1858 from the New Caledonia fur district and the remnant of the Columbia fur district north of the 49th parallel (see below). The colony was expanded with the addition of most of the Stikine Territory (also called Stickeen Territory) and the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1863 . </Li> <Li> Colony of British Columbia, formed in 1866 from a merger of the Vancouver Island and Mainland Colonies . The name British Columbia was chosen for the newly merged colony despite the opposition from Vancouver Island colonists . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Ontario, separated from Quebec in 1791 as the Province of Upper Canada until 1841, when it became Canada West in the Province of Canada . </Li> <Li> Province of Canada combined the colonies of Quebec (Lower Canada) and Ontario (Upper Canada) from 1841 to 1867 . </Li> <Li> Colony of Vancouver Island, founded by the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Victoria in 1843 . Received royal charter for the Island as a colony in 1849, and merged with the colony of British Columbia in 1866 . </Li>

At first why did england want to establish colonies in north america