Salisbury is a town on the west coast of the small Caribbean island nation of Dominica.

For the first half of the 20th century, the town was little more than a small village of thatched-roof huts along the shore, with the only significant building being the local Catholic Church (constructed 1929).

On August 29, 1976, the Dominican premier, Patrick Roland John, introduced the idea of independence to the nation.

There, he signed the Salisbury Declaration: a document citing the intentions of what was then an island colony of Britain to become an independent state.

Prior to that, Clarence Louis was appointed by Edward Oliver LeBlanc to serve as a nominated member of parliament.