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    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...
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    The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the British colony of Upper Canada (present-day Ontario) in December...
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  • Upper Canada College (UCC) is an independent day and boarding school for boys in Toronto, Ontario, operating under the International Baccalaureate program...
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    York was a town and the second capital of the colony of Upper Canada. It is the predecessor to the old city of Toronto (1834–1998). It was established...
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    Upper Canada Village is a heritage park near Morrisburg, Ontario, which depicts a 19th-century village in Upper Canada. Construction of Upper Canada Village...
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    The Reform movement in Upper Canada was a political movement in British North America in the mid-19th century. It started as a rudimentary grouping of...
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    administrative, manufacturing and retail sectors. Landmarks include Upper Canada Mall, Southlake Regional Health Centre, the Main Street Heritage Conservation...
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    proclaimed by the Crown on 10 February 1841, merged the Colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada by abolishing their separate parliaments and replacing them...
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    called Upper Canada and Lower Canada. These two colonies were collectively named the Canadas until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841...
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    Ontario (redirect from Ontario, Canada)
    the Canadas: Upper Canada southwest of the St. Lawrence-Ottawa River confluence, and Lower Canada east of it. John Graves Simcoe was appointed Upper Canada's...
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  • Upper Canada Mall is the 25th largest shopping mall in Canada, located in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. The mall is situated on the northwest corner of the...
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  • Look up Upper Canada in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Upper Canada is a former British colony in North America. Upper Canada may also refer to: Bank...
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    by John Graves Simcoe, who proposed the site for the capital city of Upper Canada. The first European settlement was between 1801 and 1804 by Peter Hagerman...
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  • The Upper Canada Tories were formed from the elements of the Family Compact after the War of 1812. The movement was an early political party and merely...
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    The Canadas is the collective name for the provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada, two historical British colonies in present-day Canada. The two colonies...
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  • Upper Canada Brewing Company is a division of Sleeman Breweries in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Founded by Frank Heaps and Larry Sherwood (of Granville Island...
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    The Bank of Upper Canada was established in 1821 under a charter granted by the legislature of Upper Canada in 1819 to a group of Kingston merchants....
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  • governors of Ontario and the lieutenant governors of the former colony of Upper Canada. The office of Lieutenant Governor of Ontario was created in 1867, when...
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  • An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. The house formally designated as the upper house...
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    than its contemporary Upper Canada, present-day southern Ontario. Lower Canada was abolished in 1841 when it and adjacent Upper Canada were united into the...
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    Toronto (redirect from Toronto, Canada)
    established the town of York in 1793 and later designated it as the capital of Upper Canada. During the War of 1812, the town was the site of the Battle of York...
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    The Upper Canada Guardian; or Freeman's Journal was one of the first opposition papers in 19th century Upper Canada. Its publisher and editor Joseph Willcocks...
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    Mexico.[citation needed] The County, named by Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe in honour of his father Captain John Simcoe,[citation...
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    parliament building. Either Navy Hall or the Freemasons Hall in Newark, Upper Canada (today Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario), served as the first legislature...
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    regulars and colonial militia defeated a series of American invasions on Upper Canada. The abdication of Napoleon in 1814 allowed the British to send additional...
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    Code's Mill building. This town was the site of the last fatal duel in Upper Canada. Robert Lyon, a law student, was killed on June 13, 1833, after fighting...
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    There were two types of corporations at work in the Upper Canadian economy: the legislatively chartered companies and the unregulated joint stock companies...
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    Simcoe, the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada. The bluffs along the Lake Ontario shores reminded her of the limestone...
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    became known as the Canadas. With the Act of Union 1840, Upper and Lower Canada were joined to become the United Province of Canada. By the 1860s, interest...
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  • Upper Canada had a short history as a coin-issuing entity. This coin was a 1/2d. token bearing a portrait of King George IV, even though it was issued...
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