Editing History of Barbados (section)

==Confederations and union proposals==
A number of proposals have been mooted in the past to integrate Barbados into neighbouring countries or even the [[Canadian Confederation]]. To date all have failed, and one proposal led to deadly riots in 1876,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1876/aug/01/barbadoes-observations|work=[[Hansard|Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)]]|date=1 August 1876|title = BARBADOES.—OBSERVATIONS. (Hansard, 1 August 1876)}}</ref> when Governor [[John Pope Hennessy]] tried to pressure Barbadian politicians to integrate more firmly into the [[Windward Islands]]. Governor Hennessy was quickly transferred from Barbados by the British Crown. In 1884, attempts were then made by the influential Barbados Agricultural Society to have Barbados form a political association with the Canadian Confederation. From 1958 to 1962 Barbados became one of the ten states of the West Indies Federation. Lastly in the 1990s, a plan was devised by the leaders of Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago to form a political association between those three governments. Again this deal was never completed, following the loss of [[Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford]] in the Barbadian general elections.{{Cn|date=June 2023}}