Upper Canada
Upper Canada ( English Upper Canada , French Haut-Canada ) was a British colony on the upper reaches of the St. Lawrence River from 1791 to 1841 . It included the southern part of what is now the Canadian province of Ontario and, until 1797, the Upper Peninsula of what is now the US state of Michigan . The capital was Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake ) until 1797 , then York ( called Toronto since 1834 ).
The area between Lake Nipissing in the north and the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie in the south and George Bay in the east, as well as the shoreline of the Upper Lake, was referred to as Upper Canada .
The Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the province of Québec (a British colony that had existed since 1763) into the provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada . This division was decided by the British Parliament on June 10, 1791 and came into force on December 26, 1791. The aim of the division was to make the American settlers loyal to the king in the western part of Québec subject to British legislation. In 1841 the French-influenced Lower Canada and the English Upper Canada merged to form the Province of Canada .
Web link
- Upper Canada ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ britannica.com: Constitutional-Act (English), accessed on January 5, 2012