The Canadas Totally Explained

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Upper and Lower Canada (or the Canadas) were two British colonies. They were both created by the Constitutional Act of 1791 and in 1841 they merged into the Province of Canada.
Their names reflected their positions relative to the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River, the same relationship between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.

Lower Canada covered the souther-eastern portion of the modern-day Province of Quebec, Canada, and (until 1809) the Labrador region of the modern-day Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Upper Canada covered what is now the southern portion of the Province of Ontario in Canada, and the lands bordering Georgian Bay and Lake Superior.
The northern part of the current provinces of Ontario and Quebec were at this time part of Rupert's Land.

History

Formation

The British colony of the Province of Quebec was divided by the Constitutional Act of 1791 into two separate provinces, with the Ottawa River forming a part of the border.
The creation of Upper Canada was in response to the desire expressed by recently arrived loyalist settlers for British institutions and laws, especially British laws of land tenure.

Union

The political structure of the colonies was changed after Lord Durham's Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839) recommended they be merged into a single colonial province. Lower Canada, Upper Canada and their legislatures were abolished by the British Act of Union of July 23, 1840, which came into force in early 1841.
The act abolished the legislatures of both Lower and Upper Canada and united them as one political entity, the Province of Canada.

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