Lower Canada
The southern, mainly French-speaking portion of Quebec, Canada, from 1791 until 1841, when it was reunited with Upper Quebec to form the present-day province of Quebec.
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The southern, mainly French-speaking portion of Quebec, Canada, from 1791 until 1841, when it was reunited with Upper Quebec to form the present-day province of Quebec.
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Lower Canada (French: Bas-Canada) was a
Lower Canada was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791 from the
partition of the British colony of the Province of Quebec (2007-2009)
into the Provinces of Lower Canada and
Lower Canada consisted of part of the former French colony of
New France, populated mainly by French Canadians, which was ceded to Great Britain after that
empire's victory in the
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Lower Canada, Upper Canada and their legislatures were abolished in 1841 with the coming into effect of the The Union Act, passed on July 23,
The Province of Lower Canada inherited the mixed set of French and English institutions that existed in the Province of Quebec during the 1763-1791 period and which continued to exist (and evolve) later in Canada-East (1841-1867) and ultimately in the current Province of Quebec (1867-).
| Year | Census estimate [1] |
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| 1806 | 250,000 |
| 1814 | 335,000 |
| 1822 | 427,465 |
| 1825 | 479,288 |
| 1827 | 473,475 |
| 1831 | 553,134 |
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| French: | New France ( |
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