DCHP-2
Union Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
THIS ENTRY MAY CONTAIN OUTDATED INFORMATION, TERMS and EXAMPLES
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.
- 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.