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Province and Upper
* 1791The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
The Province of Upper Canada was created under the Constitutional Act of 1791, within several years of the end of the American Revolutionary War.
* Alta Maremma ( Upper Maremma ) is the northern part of the Maremma region, right on the border with the Province Siena.
Accordingly, the two colonies were merged into the Province of Canada by the Act of Union 1840, with the capital at Kingston, and Upper Canada becoming known as Canada West.
Before 1841, the territory roughly corresponding to Southern Ontario in Canada belonged to the British colony of the Province of Upper Canada, while the southern portion of Quebec and the Labrador region of Newfoundland and Labrador belonged to the colony of the Province of Lower Canada ( until 1809, when Labrador was transferred to the colony of Newfoundland ).
The expulsion concerned the territories " under Polish administration ", i. e. southern East Prussia ( Masuria ), Farther Pomerania, the New March region of the former Province of Brandenburg, the districts of the Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, Lower Silesia and those parts of Upper Silesia that had remained with Germany after the 1921 Upper Silesia plebiscite.
# Gas-prone sources containing Type I kerogen in Upper Triassic fluvial shales and Paleocene marine shales, the latter being correlative of oil and gas generating source rocks of the Deep Continental Shelf trend of the Bombay High Oil Province offshore west India ;
1905 administrative map of Province of Silesia showing the historical locations of Upper Silesia ( Oppeln ) in red, Middle Silesia ( Breslau ) in yellow, and Lower Silesia ( Liegnitz ) in green
The Prussian Province of Silesia within Germany was then divided into the provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia.
However, because part of Upper Lusatia was included in the Province of Silesia in 1815, in Germany Görlitz, Niederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis and neighbouring areas are considered parts of historical Silesia.
Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province ( in Polish, województwo śląskie ), is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia ( Górny Śląsk ), with the capital in Katowice.
In 1919, after World War I, the eastern part ( with a majority of ethnic Poles ) came under Polish rule as the Silesian Voivodeship, while the mostly German-speaking western part remained part of the German Reich as the Province of Upper Silesia.
The act divided the Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, which resolved the matter for English speakers at the time, and made permanent the two-language split society of today's Canada.
Local government in the Province of Upper Canada was based on districts.
Upper Canada ceased to be a political entity with the Act of Union ( 1840 ), when, by an act of the British Parliament, it was merged with Lower Canada to form the united Province of Canada.
Its boundaries were identical to those of the former Province of Upper Canada.
Canada West was a political entity and a geographic way of referring to the western and more English speaking part of the former Province of Upper Canada, following its merger into the United Province of Canada.
Previously, it was the capital of the Katowice Voivodeship, before then, of the Silesian Voivodeship and before then Province of Upper Silesia in Germany.
The Province of Lower Canada was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791 from the partition of the British colony of the Province of Quebec ( 1763 – 91 ) into the Province of Lower Canada and the Province of Upper Canada.

Province and Canada
* Province of Buffalo, one of several proposals for what eventually became Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada
The history of telegraphy in Canada dates back to the Province of Canada.
Frequently referred to as " Canada's birthday ", particularly in the popular press, the occasion marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces ( the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec ) on July 1, 1867.
By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.
The winter of 1837 – 38 saw rebellion in both of the Canadas, with the result they were rejoined as the Province of Canada in 1841.
Map of the North-West Territory of the Province of Canada, stretching from the Fraser River on the west to Lake Superior on the east.
* 1798 – Sir Allan Napier MacNab Bt, Canadian politician, Premier of the Province of Canada ( d. 1862 )
He served in the legislature of the colonial Province of Canada and by 1857 had become premier under the colony's unstable political system.
* 1840 – The Province of Canada is created by the Act of Union.
* 1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
* 1949 – The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
Immediately after the Civil War, Pro-Confederation premier Charles Tupper led Nova Scotia into the Canadian Confederation on July 1, 1867, along with New Brunswick and the Province of Canada.
In 1849, the districts of southern Ontario were abolished by the Province of Canada, and county governments took over certain municipal responsibilities.
The Province of Canada also began creating districts in sparsely populated Northern Ontario with the establishment of Algoma District and Nipissing District in 1858.
When the Province of Canada was formed, its borders were not entirely clear, and Ontario claimed to eventually reach all the way to the Rocky Mountains and Arctic Ocean.

Province and French
The act renamed the northeasterly portion of the former French province of New France as Province of Quebec, roughly coextensive with the lower third of contemporary Quebec.
Gerry was from an early time a vocal opponent of Parliamentary efforts to tax the colonies after the French and Indian War ended in 1763, and won election to General Court of the Province of Massachusetts Bay ( its legislative assembly ) in May 1772.
Among its accomplishments, the United Province of Canada negotiated the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854 with the United States, built the Grand Trunk Railway, improved the educational system in Canada West under Egerton Ryerson, reinstated French as an official language of the legislature and the courts, codified the Civil Code of Lower Canada in 1866, and abolished the seigneurial system in Canada East.
The family were living in the small fishing village of Prek Sbauv, Kampong Thom Province during the French colonialism of the area.
The Province of Quebec was first founded as a British colony in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 after the Treaty of Paris formally transferred the French colony of New France to Britain after the Seven Years ' War.
In contrast, the modern Québécois identity is secular and based on a social democratic ideal of an active Quebec government promoting the French language and French-speaking culture in the arts, education, and business within the Province of Quebec.
It was formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone, which included parts of Bavaria ( the Rhenish Palatinate ), the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province ( including the District of Birkenfeld which formerly belonged to Oldenburg ), parts of the Prussian Province of Nassau ( see Hesse-Nassau ), and parts of Hesse-Darmstadt ( Rhinehessen on the western banks of the Rhine ); the constitution was legally confirmed by referendum on 18 May 1947.
Hatay Province remained a part of the French Mandate of Syria according to the Treaty of Lausanne, but in 1938 gained its independence as the Hatay State, which later joined Turkey after a referendum in 1939.
Acadia and the frontier between French Canada and the English Province of Massachusetts Bay were also hotly contested.
In French ( and France ( Wand )), it is le Pays wallon: The Walloon country included the greatest part of to-day's Belgium, the Province of Flandre orientale, the Province of Flandre occidentale both named Flandre wallonne, the Province of Namur, the Hainaut, the Limbourg, the pays de Liège and even the Luxembourg For Félix Rousseau, Walloon country is, after le Roman pays the old name of the country of the Walloons and the nickname Romande was commonly used to describe Walloons until the late 19th century.
William Shirley, the expansionist governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, was particularly forceful, stating that British colonists would not be safe as long as the French were present.
The territories of modern southern Ontario and southern Quebec were initially maintained as the single Province of Quebec, as it had been under the French.
From 1763 to 1791, the Province of Quebec maintained its French language, French cultural behavioural expectations and practices, and Roman Catholic – based laws.
The Province of Lower Canada inherited the mixed set of French and English institutions that existed in the Province of Quebec during the 1763 – 91 period and which continued to exist later in Canada-East ( 1841 – 67 ) and ultimately in the current Province of Quebec ( 1867 –).
The French, who had colonized the Saint Lawrence River valley to the north, and the English, who had taken over the Dutch settlements that became the Province of New York to the south, began contesting the area as early as 1691, when Pieter Schuyler built a small wooden fort at the Ticonderoga point on the western shore of the lake.
In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon.
After the collapse of the French dominated West Bank in the early 19th century, the German and Dutch ( Province of Jülich-Cleves-Berg ) speaking regions at the middle and lower course of the Rhine were annexed to the kingdom of Prussia.

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