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Upper House

• 1a Hist. in colonial times, a legislative council (def. 1).

  See also: legislative council (def. 1)  

  • 1792  (1955)  The Chief Justice is the Speaker of the Upper House, and a Mr. McDonnell of the Lower.
  • 1863  The members of the indissoluble Upper House, or Legislative Council, are also returned at the rate of twelve every two years, by the forty-eight electoral divisions of the Province.

• 1b See 1963 quote.

  See also: legislative council (def. 2)  

  • 1963  Abolition of Quebec's Legislative Council--only provincial Upper House remaining in Canada--and more pay for members of the Legislative Assembly were among the proposals adopted as the Quebec Liberal Federation ended its annual convention yesterday.
  • 1966  The 24-member council is Quebec's Upper House and if the Union Nationale Government and the Liberal Opposition stick to their promises it may be abolished this session.

• 2 the upper house of the Canadian Parliament.

  See also: Senate  Upper Chamber  

  • 1958  . . . the same resolution is now before the Upper House for approval.
  • 1965  As blatantly as any Prime Minister before him, Mr. Pearson continued to send to the Upper House party bagmen. . . .