Company rule in Rhodesia Africa. The Company's charter was duly revoked by Whitehall in 1923, and Southern Rhodesia became a self-governing colony of Britain in October that year. Northern Rhodesia became a directly-run British protectorate in April 1924. Amid the Scramble for Africa during the 1880s, the South African-based businessman and politician Cecil Rhodes envisioned the annexation to the British Empire of a bloc of territory connecting the Cape of Good Hope and Cairo—respectively at the southern and northern tips of Africa—and the concurrent construction of a line of rail linking the two. On geopolitical maps, British territories were generally marked in red or
James Morris (Canada West politician) of William Morris (Canadian businessman) The town of Morrisburg was named after him. James Morris (Canada West politician) James Morris (November 1, 1798 – September 23, 1865) was a businessman, banker and political figure in Canada West. He was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland in 1798, settled with his family at Elizabethtown (later Brockville) in Upper Canada in 1808 and was educated at Sorel in Lower Canada. He was appointed justice of the peace in 1825. In 1836, he began working at a bank in Brockville. In 1838, he was appointed to a commission which administered funds raised for canal