Upper Canada
Americannoun
noun
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history (1791–1841) the official name of the region of Canada lying southwest of the Ottawa River and north of the lower Great Lakes Compare Lower Canada
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(esp in E Canada) another name for Ontario
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In the war of 1812, the Americans invaded what was known then as Upper Canada, Lower Canada and the maritime colonies repeatedly, resulting in a stalemate.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Mr. MacDermot studied at Upper Canada College, an elite Toronto prep school where his father was principal, and in 1950 received a bachelor’s degree from Bishop’s University in Quebec, taking classes in English and history.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2018
By all reliable accounts, the real Simcoe was an honorable soldier who went on to become the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2017
One of them, the John Graves Simcoe House, is named after the first lieutenant governor of what was called Upper Canada, an abolitionist.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
The fourth son, Nathaniel Coffin, born in Boston, 1766, lived and died in Upper Canada.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
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