Upper Canada
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Province of Upper Canada | |||||||||
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| 1791–1841 | |||||||||
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 Map of Upper Canada (in orange) with 21st-century Canada (in pink) surrounding it | |||||||||
| Status | British colony | ||||||||
| Capital | Newark 1792–1797 (renamed Niagara 1798, Niagara-on-the-Lake 1970) York (later renamed Toronto in 1834) 1797–1841 | ||||||||
| Common languages | English | ||||||||
| Government | Family Compact oligarchy under a Constitutional monarchy | ||||||||
| Sovereign | |||||||||
• 1791–1820 | George III | ||||||||
• 1820–1830 | George IV | ||||||||
• 1830–1837 | William IV | ||||||||
• 1837–1841 | Victoria | ||||||||
| Lieutenant-Governor; Executive Council of Upper Canada | |||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament of Upper Canada | ||||||||
| Legislative Council | |||||||||
| Legislative Assembly | |||||||||
| Historical era | British Era | ||||||||
• | 26 December 1791 | ||||||||
• | 10 February 1841 | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
| 1836[1] | 258,999 km2 (100,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1823[1] | 150196 | ||||||||
• 1836[1] | 358187 | ||||||||
| Currency | Halifax pound | ||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||
Upper Canada is an old British name for the Canadian province of Ontario.
Upper Canada Media
Rufst du, mein Vaterland (1938)
Map of Upper Canada by J. Arrowsmith (1837)
Second market in York (Toronto)
Drawing showing the fatal shooting of Col. Robert Moodie outside John Montgomery's tavern in Toronto on 4 December 1837
An 1824 land deed for Upper Canada
Canada Company Office, 1834
Huron Tract Purchase area, in Southern Ontario, highlighted in yellow
The Sharon Temple, built by the Children of Peace
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Butler (1843), pp. 10, 20