Hist. the act passed in 1791 which created Upper and Lower Canada on the basis of a British Constitution and with all the machinery of a British colonial province.
- 1828  Some colour was lent to this view by the language of the Constitutional Act; and from the earliest times the government clique had been composed of members of the Church of England.
- 1915  The Constitutional Act seemed on the surface a very liberal measure.
- 1963  . . . in 1791 the British parliament passed the Constitutional Act.