Zonians (Spanish: Zoneítas, singular: zoneíta, zoniano) are people associated with the Panama Canal Zone, a political entity which existed between 1903 and the absorption of the Canal Zone into the Republic of Panama between 1979 and 1999. Most were American expatriates loyal to the United States. They helped build and maintain the canal. Many Zonians are descendants of the civilian American workers who came to the area during the early 1900s to work and maintain the canal. Many of the Zonians were American citizens born in the Canal Zone or had spent their childhood there.[1] A significant presence of American canal workers remained in the Canal region until its turnover in 1999.
^"Once a Zonian: the Americans who called the Panama Canal home", Radio Netherlands Archives, December 7, 1999
Zonians (Spanish: Zoneítas, singular: zoneíta, zoniano) are people associated with the Panama Canal Zone, a political entity which existed between 1903...
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gradually handed over to Panamanian control, Cardenas was one of the last Zonian holdouts Cocoli Corozal – site of the Corozal American Cemetery and Memorial...
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society, especially among the former residents of the Panama Canal Zone, the Zonians. Many Puerto Ricans living on the island of St. Croix speak in informal...
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and guitarist; son of musician Tim Buckley; his mother was a Panama Canal Zonian of mixed Greek, French, American and Panamanian descent Rod Carew - Baseball...
progress of the Panama Canal, Hallen depicted the day-to-day life of the “Zonians” – Americans living in the Panama Canal Zone - and its development over...
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and four teachers walked through an unguarded entrance to the Canal Zone. Zonian policemen then stopped the group and allowed six students to carry a Panamanian...
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