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Upper-Canada For convenience, no attempt has been made here—or in the following two entries—to subdivide the quotations according to the political divisions of the time. See Upper Canada, where such distinctions have been made.

• adj. of or relating to Upper Canada.

  See also: Upper Canada  

  • 1805  For Sale by the subscriber on reasonable terms, about 60,000 feet Upper Canada Pine Planks.
  • 1836  There happened to be . . . Upper Canada Merchants present, who all drank water, affording good evidence of the progress of Temperance principles.
  • 1856  (1926)  Of the five Upper Canada Ministers three don't conceal their desire to divide the endowment. . . .
  • 1957  Halifax businessmen remembered once-booming sugar refineries, shoe factories and cotton mills bought by "Upper Canada interests" and later closed down. . . .