Province of Upper Canada

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_region
gptkbp:area approximately 150,000 square miles
gptkbp:borderedBy gptkb:United_States
gptkb:Great_Lakes
gptkb:Province_of_Lower_Canada
gptkbp:capital gptkb:Newark
gptkb:York
gptkbp:coatOfArms Arms of Upper Canada
gptkbp:country gptkb:British_Empire
gptkbp:createdBy gptkb:Constitutional_Act_1791
gptkbp:currency gptkb:Canadian_pound
gptkbp:currentLocation gptkb:Ontario
gptkbp:demographics gptkb:United_Empire_Loyalists
Indigenous people
mainly British settlers
gptkbp:dissolved 1841
gptkbp:established 1791
gptkbp:flag gptkb:Union_Jack
gptkbp:governedBy gptkb:Mayor
gptkbp:governor gptkb:John_Graves_Simcoe
gptkb:Sir_Peregrine_Maitland
gptkb:Francis_Bond_Head
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Province of Upper Canada
gptkbp:legislature gptkb:Parliament_of_Upper_Canada
gptkbp:mergedInto gptkb:Province_of_Canada
gptkb:Province_of_Lower_Canada
gptkbp:notableBattle gptkb:Treaty_of_Ghent_(1814)
Upper Canada Rebellion (1837)
gptkbp:notableBuilding gptkb:Lake_Erie
gptkb:Lake_Huron
gptkb:Lake_Ontario
gptkb:St._Lawrence_River
gptkbp:notableCase Abolition of slavery (1793)
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:War_of_1812
gptkbp:notableTown gptkb:Kingston
gptkb:Toronto
gptkb:Niagara-on-the-Lake
gptkbp:officialLanguage English
gptkbp:parliament gptkb:Newark
gptkb:York
gptkbp:population approximately 400,000 (1841)
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Quebec_(province)
gptkbp:purpose Separation from French-speaking Lower Canada
Settlement of Loyalists
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Anglicanism
gptkb:Methodism
gptkb:Presbyterianism
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Province_of_Canada
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Act_of_Union_1840
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6