Upper Canada
The name originally applied by General Murray to the
Montreal district, in 1760. Under the terms of the Constitutional Act of
1791, the country was divided into two provinces, and the name Upper
Canada applied to the western province. The population at that time was
made up chiefly of United Empire Loyalists from the United States. In
1841 Upper and Lower Canada were reunited; and in 1867 Upper Canada
again became a separate province, under the name of Ontario (q.v.).