Subsequently, with the passage of the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, Quebec's civil law became entirely statute based, using the civil law system for matters within provincial jurisdiction.

When Quebec was divided into the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada by the Constitutional Act of 1791, the first Act passed by the Legislature of Upper Canada was to adopt the law of England for all purposes, replacing the civil law.

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.

The languages of Aboriginal peoples in Canada started to influence European languages used in Canada even before widespread settlement took place, and the French of Lower Canada provided vocabulary to the English of Upper Canada.

In 1784, the two provinces were divided ; Nova Scotia was split into Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island ( rejoined to Nova Scotia in 1820 ), Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, while Quebec was split into Lower Canada ( southern Quebec ) and Upper Canada ( southern through lower northern Ontario ).

Initially, on 1 July 1867, there were four provinces in confederation as " One dominion under the name of Canada ": Canada West ( former Upper Canada, now Ontario ), Canada East ( former Lower Canada, now Quebec ), Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick.

* 1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada ( today Quebec )

* Bike month in the Lower mainland in British Columbia, Canada

* 1832 – Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6, 000 people in Lower Canada.

* 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.

* 1793 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.

The Lower Mainland is a name commonly applied to the region surrounding and including Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Climate, ecology and geology of the Lower Mainland are consistent enough that it has been classified as a separate ecoregion ( the Lower Mainland Ecoregion ) within the Ecological framework of Canada, used by both Federal and Provincial Environment Ministries.

** Central Austro-Bavarian ( along the main rivers Isar and Danube, spoken in the northern parts of the State of Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and the Northern Burgenland )

* To the south east: Lehen ( small hamlet ), Mitterhörlbach ( hamlet ), Upper Hörlbach ( village ), Lower Hörlbach ( hamlet )

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

Map of the Freie Ämter, including the 1712 line dividing the Upper and Lower Freie Ämter

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Brandenburg (;, Lower Sorbian: Bramborska ; Upper Sorbian: Braniborska ) is a city in one of the sixteen federal-states of Germany.

In ancient Egypt, the bee was seen to symbolize the lands of Lower Egypt, with the Pharaoh being referred to as " He of Sedge and Bee " ( the sedge representing Upper Egypt ).

The Lower Houses do have far larger and better fitted common rooms that are similar to the ones the Upper Houses had before the renovations.

From the eastern side of the building, the Upper Houses look out at Rowell Jackman Hall and the Lower Houses see the St. Michael's College residence of Elmsley.

Rocks of these epochs are referred to as belonging to the Lower, Middle, or Upper Cambrian.

The Cretaceous is divided into Early and Late Cretaceous epochs or Lower and Upper Cretaceous series.

Upper panel: Ball on a banked circular track moving with constant speed v ; Lower panel: Forces on the ball.

It is here that the Upper Jordan River / Sea of Galilee / Lower Jordan River water system comes to an end.

He divided the province into Lower Moesia and Upper Moesia, and transferred three additional legions to the Danube.

Also included are the nine governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region, the eight governorates of Upper Egypt along the Nile River south from Cairo to Aswan, and the five frontier governorates covering Sinai and the deserts that lie west and east of the Nile.

The Nile Valley is also known as Upper Egypt, while the Nile Delta region is known as Lower Egypt.

Lake Nasser's waters fill the area through Lower Nubia ( Upper Egypt and northern Sudan ) within the narrow canyon between the cliffs of sandstone and granite created by the flow of the river over many centuries.

The corresponding rocks are referred to as Lower, Middle, and Upper Eocene.

It is located almost exactly in the centre of the county between the Upper and Lower sections of Lough Erne.

These microfossils indicate the swamp was `` formed during the Lower Cretaceous period when dinosaurs were at their heyday and when the first flowering plants were just appearing.

However, by 1704 the Province of Pennsylvania had grown so large that their representatives wanted to make decisions without the assent of the Lower Counties and the two groups of representatives began meeting on their own, one at Philadelphia, and the other at New Castle.

Penn and his heirs remained proprietors of both and always appointed the same person Governor for their Province of Pennsylvania and their territory of the Lower Counties.

Ultimately, Frederick prevailed in all those conflicts by outliving his opponents and sometimes inheriting their lands, as was the case with his nephew Ladislaus, from whom he gained Lower Austria in 1457, and with his brother Albert VI, whom he succeeded in Upper Austria.

(, ), on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony ( Niedersachsen ), Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( later described as the Elector of Hanover ).

: The Sciri, moreover, and the Sadagarii and certain of the Alani with their leader, Candac by name, received Scythia Minor and Lower Moesia.

In 1817 the British Wesleyans arrived in the Canadas from the Maritimes but by 1820 had agreed, with the Episcopal Methodists, to confine their work to Lower Canada ( present-day Quebec ) while the later would confine themselves to Upper Canada ( present-day Ontario ).

The modern nations of Nigeria and Niger take their names from the river, marking contesting national claims by colonial powers of the " Upper ", " Lower " and " Middle " Niger river basin during the Scramble for Africa at the end of the 19th century.

The Honors Program provides talented undergraduates the opportunity to take rigorous coursework that leads to the designation of Lower Division Honors, Upper Division Honors, or Full Honors on their academic transcript.

Lower courts are bound by the precedent set by higher courts within their region.

The names of Silesia in the different languages most likely share their etymology — Latin and English: Silesia ; Polish: Śląsk ; Old Polish: Ślążsk ; Silesian: Ślůnsk ; German: Schlesien ; Silesian German: Schläsing ; Czech: Slezsko ; Slovak: Sliezsko ; Kashubian: Sląsk ; Upper Sorbian: Šleska ; Lower Sorbian: Šlazyńska.

Lower branches die fairly readily from shading, but trees less than 100 years old retain most of their dead branches.

At the same time Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne with an Austrian corps struck at the allies on the Lower Po, and cut off their communication with the main body in Piedmont.

Lower salary, working in temporary or non-regular jobs, in lower status in working position, faced with thick harsh glass-walls and glass ceiling are all evidence that their society is not so keen towards women on top.

While Lower Louisiana had been settled by French colonists since the late 18th century, the Cajuns trace their roots to the influx of Acadian settlers after the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and Indian War ( 1754 to 1763 ).

In May 1718, the shrewd Emperor Brim, mico of the powerful Coweta band, invited representatives of Britain, France, and Spain to his village and, in council with Upper and Lower Creek leaders, declared a policy of Muscogee neutrality in their colonial rivalry.

In the summer of 1790, McGillivray and 29 other Muscogee chiefs signed the Treaty of New York, on behalf of the ' Upper, Middle and Lower Creek and Seminole composing the Creek nation of Indians ,' ceding a large portion of their lands to the federal government and promising to return fugitive slaves, in return for federal recognition of Muscogee sovereignty and promises to evict white settlers.

In 1805, the Lower Creeks ceded their lands east of the Ocmulgee to Georgia, with the exception of the sacred burial mounds of the Ocmulgee Old Fields.

According to the Shabaka Stone, Geb divided Egypt into two halves, giving Upper Egypt ( the desert south ) to Set and Lower Egypt ( the region of the delta in the north ) to Horus, in order to end their feud.

Regardless, once the two lands were united, Set and Horus were often shown together crowning the new pharaohs, as a symbol of their power over both Lower and Upper Egypt.

Lower tier ISPs and their customers may be unaffected by these partitions because they may have redundant interconnections with more than one tier-1 provider.