Upper Canada

Upper Canada (English Upper Canada, French skin -Canada ) was from 1791 to 1841 was a British colony at the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River. It included the southern part of today's Canadian province of Ontario and until 1797, the Upper Peninsula of present-day U.S. state of Michigan. Capital was to 1797 Niagara-on -the-Lake, then York ( since 1834 called Toronto ).

As a top Canada, the area between Lake Nipissing in the north and the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario and Lake Erie in the south and Georgian Bay to the east was called, to the shoreline of Lake Superior.

Under the Constitutional Act of 1791, the province of Quebec was divided into the provinces of Upper Canada and Lower Canada ( since 1763 existing British colony ). This division was decided by the British Parliament on June 10, 1791 and entered into force on December 26, 1791. Objective of the division was to insinuate the Loyalist American settlers in the western part of Quebec to the British legislation. 1841, the merger of the French inspired Lower Canada and Upper Canada English coined the province of Canada.