The West Indies Federation, also known as the Federation of the West Indies, was a short-lived Carribean Federationthat existed from January 3, 1958 to May 31, 1962. It consisted of several Caribbean colonies of the United Kingdom. The expressed intention of the Federation was to create a political unit that would become independant from Britain as a single state—possibly similar to the Canadian Confederation, or Australian Federation; however, before that could happen, the Federation collapsed due to internal political conflicts. The provinces or unit territories of the West Indies Federation were:
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Jamaica (to which were attached the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos Islands as dependencies)
- Montserrat
- Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (present day Saint Kitts and Nevis and Anguilla)
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Trinidad and Tobago #
