Talk:Western District, Upper Canada

Merger with Ontario

 * The fork does not seem necessary--A Y Arktos\talk 20:12, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Michigan apart of the Canadian Parliament from 1790-1796
Prince Edward Duke of Kent lived in Quebec City and Michigan territory was under the English monarchy with an English Prince in North America. ↵(Known as the Prince of Quebec)from 1791-1793 this was when Michigan territory was a part of Ontario / Quebec and a member of Parliament. ↵Detroit was transferred to Quebec under the Quebec Act of 1774. ↵It was then the third-largest city in the Province of Quebec, after Montreal and Quebec. 1792 Detroit, including settlements on both sides of the river, holds its first election, sending↵three representatives to the Parliament of Upper Canada.↵The Act Against Slavery, 1793, an anti-slavery act passed in Upper Canada. The Act was created partially in response to Loyalist refugees who brought slaves with them.↵Michigan Territory was a part of Upper Canada from 1790-1796 Under British rule Michigan remained a part of Canada. And again in August 1812- Until September 1813 During the war of 1812 or known as the Anglo-American war when Col/general Proctor was temporary governor of Michigan territory. ↵The British retained control of Detroit and Michigan after the American Revolution. When Quebec split into Lower and Upper Canada in 1791, Michigan was part of Kent County, Upper Canada. It held its first democratic elections in August 1792 to send delegates to the new provincial parliament at Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake

https://www.legislature.mi.gov › ...PDF CHRONOLOGY OF MICHIGAN HISTORY Dec 9, 2022

The Constitutional Act of 1791 split the Province of Quebec into two distinct colonies: Lower Canada in the east and Upper Canada in the west. British officials named the Ottawa River as the boundary between the two new provinces of British North America. https://www.uottawa.ca › clmc › con... Constitutional Act (1791) - University of Ottawa

In 1791, the territory north of the Great Lakes was reorganized and divided into Lower Canada and Upper Canada.

In 1791, the British enacted the Constitutional Act, which split Quebec into two parts. Ontario was upstream of the St. Lawrence River so it became Upper Canada and Quebec became Lower Canada.

Upper Canada’s first capital was Newark, which is now Niagara-on-the-Lake. In 1793, the capital was moved to York (now Toronto) to protect it from American attacks. Upper Canada’s first Lieutenant Governor was General John Graves Simcoe. -https://www.ontario.ca/page/about-ontario 2601:407:4180:8D80:ED1B:6AA9:C482:C20D (talk) 21:54, 13 June 2023 (UTC)