Lower Canada

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British colony former colony

Lower Canada was a British colony along the lower Saint Lawrence River and Gulf, roughly corresponding to modern-day southern Quebec, that existed from 1791 to 1841 before being united with Upper Canada to form the Province of Canada.

Aliases (2)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British colony → former colony →
borderedBy	Maine → New Brunswick → New York → United States → Upper Canada → Vermont →
capital	Quebec City →
commonLanguage	French →
continent	North America →
correspondsToCurrentTerritory	parts of modern Quebec → southern Quebec →
country	United Kingdom →
createdBy	Constitutional Act 1791 →
currency	Canadian pound →
dateAbolished	1841-02-10 →
dateEstablished	1791-12-26 →
demographics	majority French-speaking population → minority English-speaking population →
endTime	1841 →
followed	Province of Quebec (1763–1791) →
followedBy	Province of Canada →
governmentForm	colonial administration → constitutional monarchy →
hasHistoricalRegion	Bas-Canada →
headOfState	British monarch →
languageOfNativeName	French →
legalSystem	English criminal law → French civil law →
legislature	Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada → Legislative Council of Lower Canada →
locatedIn	British North America → Gulf of Saint Lawrence region → North America → Saint Lawrence River valley →
mergedInto	Province of Canada →
namedAfter	lower course of the Saint Lawrence River →
nativeName	Bas-Canada →
officialLanguage	English → French →
partOf	Province of Canada →
religion	Protestantism → Roman Catholicism →
replaced	Province of Quebec (1763–1791) →
significantEvent	Lower Canada Rebellion → Rebellions of 1837–1838 →
sovereignState	United Kingdom →
startTime	1791 →

Referenced by (14)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
British America → British North American colonies (except some territories) →	hasPart
Clergy reserves ("colonial government of Lower Canada") →	administeredBy
Act of Union 1840 →	appliesToJurisdiction
Clergy reserves →	appliesToTerritory
Upper Canada →	borderedBy
Province of Canada →	formedByUnionOf
Constitutional Act 1791 →	jurisdictionCreated
James McGill →	livedIn
Clergy reserves ("Province of Lower Canada") →	locatedIn
Rebellions of 1837–1838 →	location
Province of Canada →	predecessor
Upper Canada →	separatedFrom
Act of Union 1840 →	unitedEntity