* 1813 – War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Upper Canada in the Battle of York ( present day Toronto, Canada ).

Four schools have been named for Heschel, in the Upper West Side of New York City, Northridge, California, Agoura Hills, California, and Toronto, Canada.

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.

* Upper Becker Creek Cone, a volcanic cone in the Upper Becker Creek area of Carbon Hill, Yukon Territory, Canada

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.

* 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada ( present-day Toronto, Ontario ).

During the War of 1812, the Detroit River served as a major barrier between the American Michigan Territory and British Upper Canada, especially during the Battle of Fort Detroit in August 1812, when Detroit briefly fell to the British.

* 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.

To the west the Upper Houses look out on the Vic Quad and the main Victoria College building across it.

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.

These paintings include Norwood Under the Snow, and Lordship Lane Station, views of The Crystal Palace relocated from Hyde Park, Dulwich College, Sydenham Hill, All Saints Church, Upper Norwood, and a lost painting of St. Stephen's Church.

It is the largest single donation in the history of CUNY and has been used to buy a landmark building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that is to become the permanent home of the Honors College, and will add support to its endowment.

Dartmouth College is situated in the rural town of Hanover, New Hampshire, located in the Upper Valley along the Connecticut River in New England.

He was educated at Hogarth Primary School, Chiswick and the private Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith and New College, Oxford.

Flaherty was one of seven children born to prospector Robert Henry Flaherty ( an Irish Protestant ) and Susan Klockner ( a German Roman Catholic ); he was sent to Upper Canada College in Toronto for his education.

All members of the Graduate Society also belong to the Christ's College Student Union ( CCSU ) and share their canteen-style Upper Hall.

Upper Iowa University participates in the North Central Association ( NCA ) Academic Quality Improvement Program ( AQIP ), has a UIU chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, and 165 student athletes were honored in 2010 for academic excellence.

Upper Iowa Distance Education includes 15 center locations across the U. S. in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana and Wisconsin, an Independent Study program, as well as an Online Program recognized by GetEducated. com Best Buy Rankings since 2007 and the Online Education Database ( OEDb ) Online College Rankings since 2007.

Victoria College was originally founded as the Upper Canada Academy by the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

In 1841, it was incorporated as Victoria College, named for Queen Victoria, and finally received a charter from the Upper Canadian Legislature.

To the west the Upper Houses look out on the Vic Quad and the main Victoria College building across it.

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.

The name ' Upper Canada ' lives on in a few historical forms, most notably the Law Society of Upper Canada, Upper Canada Lumber, Upper Canada College, Upper Canada Mall ( in Newmarket, Ontario ), and the Upper Canada Brewing Company.

Productions also take place in varying locations around the school, varying from the sports fields to more historic buildings such as Upper School and College Chapel.

* 1840-1853 Kings ' College, Toronto, Upper Canada / Canada West-still located at King's College Circle, University of Toronto ( see Toronto Magnetic and Meteorological Observatory )

All three of their sons attended Upper Canada College, in Toronto.

Bacque was educated at Upper Canada College in Toronto and then the University of Toronto, where he studied history and philosophy graduating in 1952 with a Bachelor of Art degree.

Black was first educated at Upper Canada College ( UCC ), during which time, at age eight, he invested his life savings of $ 60 in one share of General Motors.

Then, on June 4, 1915, Massey married Alice Parkin, the daughter of Sir George Robert Parkin, who was a former principal of Upper Canada College ( UCC ) and secretary of the Rhodes Trust ; through the marriage, Massey later became the uncle of George Grant and the great-uncle to Michael Ignatieff.

Founded in 1829 by Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada Sir John Colborne, UCC is the oldest independent school in the province of Ontario, the third oldest in the country, and is described as one of Canada's most prestigious preparatory schools, having many of Canada's most powerful and wealthy as graduates.

Founded in 1829 by Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada Major-General Sir John Colborne ( later the Lord Seaton ) in the hopes that it would serve as a " feeder school " to the newly established King's College ( later the University of Toronto ), UCC was modelled on the great independent schools of Britain, most notably Eton College.

UCC is a non-denominational school with approximately 1, 000 day students and 110 boarders ; Senior Kindergarten to Grade Seven students, approximately 400 boys, attend the Preparatory School ( the Prep ), after which a boy may move on to the Upper School, which consists of Grades Eight to Twelve.

While Prep students are divided into forms, UCC, like several other schools in the Commonwealth of Nations, divides its Upper School students into houses.

Further, each year, usually for two to four weeks during Spring Break, UCC also organises trips for 15 to 20 of its Upper School students to various developing countries where they take part in community building services such as constructing schools, wells and homes, or aiding in conservation work.

The name was changed in 1969 to the Upper Canada College Association, when the association expanded its mandate to include parents, faculty, staff and friends of the college in matters relating to UCC, such as governance and advancement.

Speakers from the different states of Austria can easily be distinguished from each other by their particular accents ( probably more so than Bavarians ), those of Carinthia, Styria, Vienna, Upper Austria, and the Tyrol being very characteristic.

* 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.

Assyria or Athura ( Aramaic for Assyria ) was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state from the late 25th or early – 24th century BC to 608 BC centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia ( present day northern Iraq ), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

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.

Berlin's best preserved medieval Church of St. Mary's is the 1 < sup > st </ sup > preaching venue – Memorial Church being the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > – of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ( EKBO ), a Protestant regional church body.

The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta ( or Mouhoun ), the White Volta ( Nakambé ) and the Red Volta ( Nazinon ).

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.

The old Bishopric of Bamberg was composed of an unbroken territory extending from Schlüsselfeld in a northeasterly direction to the Franconian Forest, and possessed in addition estates in the Duchies of Carinthia and Salzburg, in the Nordgau ( the present Upper Palatinate ), in Thuringia, and on the Danube.

Image: DiscoscaphitesirisCretaceous. jpg | The ammonite Discoscaphites iris, Owl Creek Formation ( Upper Cretaceous ), Ripley, Mississippi.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

The most that can be said about built structures under Diocletian's reign is that he rebuilt and strengthened forts at the Upper Rhine frontier ( where he followed the works made under Probus's reign, both along the Lake Constance-Basel as well as along the Rhine – Iller – Danube line ), in Egypt, and on the frontier with Persia.

Upper levels of degree are anyway shown in the title, as those who obtain a master's degree can be referred to as " dottore / dottoressa magistrale " ( masterly doctor ) while those who achieve the relatively new program of " dottorato di ricerca " ( research doctorate, equivalent of a Ph. D .), carry the title of " dottore / dottoressa di ricerca " ( research doctor ), which can be abbreviated as " Dott.

The first languages for which standardisation was promoted included Italian (" questione della lingua ": Modern Tuscan / Florentine vs. Old Tuscan / Florentine vs. Venetian > Modern Florentine + archaic Tuscan + Upper Italian ), French ( the standard is based on Parisian ), English ( the standard is based on the London dialect ) and ( High ) German ( based on the dialects of the chancellery of Meissen in Saxony, Middle German and the chancellery of Prague in Bohemia (" Common German ")).

The Paleolithic is subdivided into the Lower Paleolithic ( Early Stone Age, ending around 350, 000 – 300, 000 years ago ), the Middle Paleolithic ( Middle Stone Age, until 50, 000 – 30, 000 years ago ), and the Upper Paleolithic.

The region is nowadays mainly represented by the administrative districts of Lower Franconia ( Unterfranken, capital city Würzburg ), Middle Franconia ( Mittelfranken, capital city Ansbach ), and Upper Franconia ( Oberfranken, capital city Bayreuth ) in Bavaria.