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    new colony of Upper Canada. Known as Hesse District (named after Hesse in Germany) until 1792, it was abolished in 1849. The District originally consisted...
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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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    partitioned in 1791 to create the new colony of Upper Canada. The District, originally known as Lunenburg District (after Lüneburg in Germany), was constituted...
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    partitioned in 1791 to create the new colony of Upper Canada. The District, originally known as Mecklenburg District (named after Mecklenburg Castle in the Mecklenburg...
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  • Plovdiv Western District, Upper Canada Western District (Hong Kong) or Sai Wan Western District, a district of Malta Western District (General Junta of...
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    The Wellington District was a historic district in Upper Canada and its successor, Canada West, which existed until 1849. It was formed in June 1840 from...
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    Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces, Canadian West or the Western provinces of Canada, and commonly known within Canada as the West...
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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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    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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    The London District was a historic district in Upper Canada. It was formed in 1798 from parts of the Home and Western Districts, and lasted until its abolition...
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    Gore District was a historic district in Upper Canada which existed until 1849. It was formed in 1816 from parts of York County in the Home District and...
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    Court of quarter sessions (category Judiciary of Canada)
    1838–1849 Simcoe District, Upper Canada 1837 Hesse District 1788–1792 – sat at Sandwich (now Windsor, Ontario) Western District, Upper Canada 1792–1849 London...
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  • 8 May 1813) was a Royal Navy officer, businessman, and politician in Upper Canada. During his service with the Royal Navy Grant saw action in the Seven...
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    and North Western Railway line running into the Upper Peninsula from Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Central was in turn purchased by the Canadian National Railway...
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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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    Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe in honour of his father Captain John Simcoe,[citation needed] was established as part of the Home District in 1798...
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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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    new colony of Upper Canada. It was abolished with the adoption of the county system in 1849. Originally established as Nassau District in 1788, it was...
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    Ontario (redirect from Ontario, Canada)
    Simcoe, Talbot, Victoria, Wellington, and Western. American troops in the War of 1812 invaded Upper Canada across the Niagara River and the Detroit River...
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    The Johnstown District was a historic district in Upper Canada which existed until 1849. In 1798, the new Parliament of Upper Canada divided the territory...
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    The North-West Territories encompassed all of current northern and western Canada, except for the British holdings in the Arctic islands and the Colony...
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    sectors. Landmarks include Upper Canada Mall, Southlake Regional Health Centre, the Main Street Heritage Conservation District, and Wesley Brooks Conservation...
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  • in the area and he was appointed to the district court and land board of the Hesse District of Upper Canada. Robertson resigned from his position as...
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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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    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 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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    Assembly of Upper Canada in 1838 to authorize the separation of the county from the London District and constitute it as the Huron District. The county...
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    Central Ontario, Canada. It extends from Georgian Bay in the west, to the northern tip of Lake Couchiching in the south, to the western border of Algonquin...
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    Municipality of the District of Argyle, is a district municipality in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Statistics Canada classifies the district municipality as...
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    La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just La Cañada (Spanish for 'The Canyon'), is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles...
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