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Feb 7, 2006 · It was created in 1791 by the division of the old Province of Quebec into Lower Canada in the east and Upper Canada in the west. Upper Canada was a wilderness society settled largely by Loyalists and land-hungry farmers moving north from the United States.
The Province of Upper Canada (French: province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.
Lower Canada covered the southeastern portion of the present-day province of Quebec, Canada, and (until 1809) the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador. [3] Upper Canada covered what is now the southern portion of the province of Ontario and the lands bordering Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. [3]
May 11, 2020 · Upper and Lower Canada were formed by the Constitutional Act of 1791 in response to the wave of United Empire Loyalists moving north from the United States into the French-speaking province of Quebec following the American Revolution (1765-1783). The result was the division of the old Province of Quebec into two colonies, Lower Canada to the ...
May 21, 2021 · Upper Canada. Upper Canada was the smaller of the two colonies and occupied Ottawa River’s western portion. It covered areas such as Southern Ontario and pays d'en Haut in Northern Ontario. Since it was near the United States border, it became the stopping point for most Loyalists streaming from the US after the American Revolutionary War ...
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It is the southernmost Upper Canada treaty and consisted of a large strip of territory from the southwestern shore of Lake Erie north to the Thames River and east to a point southwest of modern-day London, Ontario.
Map of Upper Canada (in orange) with 21st-century Canada (in pink) surrounding it
