Lower Canada

Lower Canada (French Bas -Canada, Eng. Lower Canada ) was from 1791 to 1841 was a British colony on the lower reaches of the St. Lawrence River and on the shores of the St. Lawrence Gulf. It included the southern part of today's Quebec and Labrador Canadian province. Capital was Quebec.

Lower Canada and Upper Canada created the english embossed with the enactment of the Constitution Act of 1791 and by the division of the Province of Québec. This division was decided by the British Parliament on June 10, 1791 and entered into force on December 26, 1791. Lower Canada comprised a part of the former French colony of New France, which had been captured during the French and Indian War by the British. Other parts of New France were divided into the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Iceland.

After the defeat of the Lower Canada Rebellion in 1838, the Constitution was repealed, and a Special Commission took over the affairs of state. 1841, the merger of the French inspired Lower Canada and Upper Canada English coined the province of Canada.

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