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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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    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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    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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    administrative, manufacturing and retail sectors. Landmarks include Upper Canada Mall, Southlake Regional Health Centre, the Main Street Heritage Conservation...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    Talbot immigrated to Canada in 1791, where he became personal secretary to John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. After returning to...
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    of Upper Canada was the legislature for Upper Canada. It was created when the old Province of Quebec was split into Upper Canada and Lower Canada by the...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • The following is a list of prominent Upper Canada College (UCC) alumni. UCC's alumni are usually known simply as Old Boys (as is common with most all-male...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    government of Lower Canada (now southern Quebec). Together with the simultaneous rebellion in the neighbouring colony of Upper Canada (now southern Ontario)...
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