Guyanese Online

This is a historical document that gives a comprehensive picture of British Guiana in 1924.  The Introduction is shown in this entry.  The whole document (126 pages) can be downloaded here : BRITISH GUIANA  – 1924

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British Guiana – British Empire Exhibition, Wembley – 1924

1924  –  INTRODUCTION

BRITISH GUIANA, the only British colony on the South American mainland, has an area of about 89,480 square miles, approximately equal to that of England, Scotland and Wales, and the population by the 1921 Census was estimated at 297,691, which gives an average of 3 1/3 per square mile.

In spite of being so near the equator the climate is more subtropical than tropical. For most months of the year the maximum shade temperature is about 85°F, and even in the hottest months 89°F is rarely recorded, while the night temperature seldom falls below 73°F or 74°F, a temperature of 70°F being very rare.There are two wet and two dry seasons in the coastland regions; the long wet season, usually from April to August, being succeeded by the long dry season up to the middle of November, followed by the wet weather towards the end of January, and the short dry season until April.         Continue reading →