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Upper Canada

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Upper Canada
A historical region and province of British North America. Roughly coextensive with southern Ontario, Canada, it was formed in 1791 and joined Lower Canada in 1841.

Upper Canada
n
1. (Placename) History (from 1791-1841) the official name of the region of Canada lying southwest of the Ottawa River and north of the lower Great Lakes Compare Lower Canada
2. (Placename) (esp in E Canada) another name for Ontario


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" You remember the beaver which a naturalist tells us "busied himself as earnestly in constructing a dam in a room up three pair of stairs in London as if he had been laying his foundation in a lake in Upper Canada.
Broderip's amiable beaver, as that charming naturalist tells us, busied himself as earnestly in constructing a dam, in a room up three pair of stairs in London, as if he had been laying his foundation in a stream or lake in Upper Canada.
 
 
 
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