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Union Hist.

• 1 n. the uniting of Upper and Lower Canada, finally effected by the Union Act.

  See also: Union Act  United Canada  

  • 1822  Meetings friendly to the Union have been held in St. Armand's and Frelighsburgh, in Lower Canada, but we have no room for their resolutions.
  • 1824  A rumour has been in circulation for a few days past, that it was the intention of His Majesty's Ministers to submit to Parliament a Union of the British Provinces in North America, and to place at their head a Royal Duke as Vice-Roy.
  • 1844  Our late Parliamentary majority, to govern United Canada, having doubled the expenditure of the two provinces before the Union.
  • 1963  In the Union there was also to be equal representation of the two sections which were the old Upper and Lower Canada, now Canada West and Canada East

• 2 n. the joining in federal union, under the British North America Act, of the several provinces consituting the Dominion of Canada, inaugurated in 1867.

  See also: Confederation  

  • 1859  Except union is adopted British Columbia [may] be a long time without free institutions.
  • 1885  Manitoba (1870), British Columbia (1871), and Prince Edward Island (1873), have all been admitted to the Union, but there is no authoritative arrangement as regards precedence.
  • 1953  Tilley again formed a government, and in the elections that followed, with the aid of much Canadian money, the union forces won.