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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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
And the Upper Canada Brewing Company would be pleased by her beer bottle designs.
From Forbes ● Oct. 10, 2011
For his final two years of high school, Colonel Williams boarded at Upper Canada College, an elite private school in Toronto.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2010
A great part of Upper Canada, of Michigan, and of Illinois, besides other portions of the west, were tenanted by wild beasts alone.
From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Parkman, Francis
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