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Upper Canada Abbrev. U.C.

• 1a Hist. from 1791 to 1841, the official name of the province lying west of the Ottawa River and north of Lakes Ontario and Erie.

  See also: Lower Canada (def. 1a)  U.C.  Upper Country (def. 2)  Upper Province (def. 1)  

  • 1791  (1911)  Dec. 26--This day the division of the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, and the new constitution given to the former, was announced by proclamation.
  • 1838  (1839)  Sufficient has now been said to show you that the evils of Canada have their origin in the defects of the constitutional act, which by substituting French for English laws, by securing to them an overwhelming majority in the assembly, and in separating them from Upper Canada, have had the effect of making them a French and not an English colony.
  • 1964  And before the age of railways and steam navigation, connections were not easy between Upper Canada and the colonies situated along the Atlantic seaboard.

• 1b Hist. from 1841 to 1867, the popular name for Canada West.

  See also: Canada West  Lower Canada (def. 1b)  U.C.  

  • 1860  Frenchmen will not stand quietly by and see their rights and liberties trodden under foot by a ranting, howling Clear Grit from Upper Canada.
  • 1917  French was used freely . . . in schools in Upper Canada wherever there was a French-speaking population.

• 2 Esp. Maritimes Ontario.

  See also: Lower Canada (def. 1b)  U.C.  Upper Province (def. 2)  

  • 1889  Niagara is the Plymouth Rock of Upper Canada, and was once its proud capital city.
  • 1956  . . . it was a joke in Oak Falls that whenever Senator Sam was away in Upper Canada sounding off about the green forest the plate on his office door at home was just as green.
  • 1958  Met a friend of earlier days, who pounds a typewriter for one of the strong partisan newspapers of Upper Canada. . . .
  • 1964  Papa says that this is because nobody in Upper Canada knows how to salt herring properly.
  • 1966  Upper and Lower Canada came together with a head-table flourish last night amid the rocking rhythms of old Canadian folk music. . . .