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Upper Canada

noun

  1. a former British province in Canada 1791–1840: now the S part of Ontario province.


Upper Canada

noun

  1. 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
  2. (esp in E Canada) another name for Ontario
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

I have observed two things in journeying through Upper Canada.

Another lasting benefit was conferred upon Upper Canada by the reorganization of the public school system of Ontario.

In the reform movement in Upper Canada there were a multiplicity of leaders and a constant shifting of groups.

The press was represented by a few weekly newspapers; only one daily existed in Upper Canada before 1840.

In Upper Canada party struggles did not take shape until well after the War of 1812.

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