30 Facts About Upper Canada

Province of Upper Canada was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.

Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those areas of Northern Ontario in the which had formed part of New France, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River or Lakes Huron and Superior, excluding any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay.

Upper Canada was the primary destination of Loyalist refugees and settlers from the United States after the American Revolution, who often were granted land to settle in Upper Canada.

Already populated by Indigenous peoples, land for settlement in Upper Canada was made by treaties between the new British government and the Indigenous, exchanging land for one-time payments or annuities.

Upper Canada existed from its establishment on 26 December 1791 to 10 February 1841, when it was united with adjacent Lower Canada to form the Province of Canada.

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The division was effected so that Loyalist American settlers and British immigrants in Upper Canada could have English laws and institutions, and the French-speaking population of Lower Canada could maintain French civil law and the Catholic religion.

Upper Canada's constitution was said to be "the very image and transcript" of the British constitution, and based on the principle of "mixed monarchy" – a balance of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy.

Executive Council of Upper Canada had a similar function to the Cabinet in England but was not responsible to the Legislative Assembly.

Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada functioned as the lower house in the Parliament of Upper Canada.

Upper Canada solicited information on the colony through township questionnaires, and soon became a critic of government mismanagement.

Upper Canada's expulsion made him a martyr in the reform community.

Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the Family Compact in December 1837, led by William Lyon Mackenzie.

The Upper Canada Rebellion was largely defeated shortly after it began, although resistance lingered until 1838 – mainly through the support of the Hunters' Lodges, a secret anti-British American militia that emerged in states around the Great Lakes.

The nature of the grant and the administration of land sales by Upper Canada and Canada is a matter of dispute.

Upper Canada was infamous for registering settlers' names on the local settlement map in pencil and if displeased, erasing their entry.

The Upper Canada Company was created as a means of generating government revenue that was not under the control of the elected Assembly, thereby granting the Lt.

Plan for the Upper Canada Company was promoted by the province's Attorney General, John Beverly Robinson, then studying law at Lincoln's Inn in London.

The Upper Canada Company was the administrative agent for the Huron Tract.

Upper Canada was the first Catholic chaplain in the British Army since the Reformation.

Upper Canada went on to edit a Reform newspaper in Toronto, the Canadian Correspondent.

Undisputed leader of the highly fractious Methodists in Upper Canada was Egerton Ryerson, editor of their newspaper, The Christian Guardian.

Bank of Upper Canada was "captured" from Kingston merchants by the York elite at the instigation of John Strachan in 1821, with the assistance of William Allan, a Toronto merchant and Executive Councillor.

The Bank of Upper Canada was a political sore point for the Reformers throughout the 1830s.

Upper Canada was in the unenviable position of having few exports with which to pay for all its imported manufactured needs.

Upper Canada Canadians sought to build a similar system that would tie this trade to the St Lawrence River and Montreal.

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Upper Canada was supposed to have been a private one using private capital; but the province had little private capital available, hence most of the original funds came from New York.

Upper Canada was thus controlled by the Family Compact, even though they had few shares.

Besides marine travel, Upper Canada had a few Post roads or footpaths used for transportation by horse or stagecoaches along the key settlements between London to Kingston.

Many other battles were fought in American territory bordering Upper Canada, including the Northwest Territory, upstate New York and naval battles in the Great Lakes.

Upper Canada West was the western portion of the United Province of Upper Canada from 10 February 1841, to 1 July 1867.