* 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.

In 1113, perhaps at Henry's instigation, and with the support of his Anglo-Norman, David demanded, and received, additional lands in Lothian along the Upper Tweed and Teviot.

For this he received a £ 200 premium and a commission to paint a fresco in the Upper Waiting Hall ( or Hall of Poets ) in the House of Lords.

In 1836, Egerton Ryerson received a royal charter for the institution from King William IV in England, while the Upper Canadian government was hesitant to provide a charter to a Methodist institution.

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

In December of 1351 Louis VI received Brandenburg from his older half-brother Louis V of Bavaria in exchange for the sole rule of Upper Bavaria.

Although Wenceslaus upon his father's death retained Bohemia, his younger half-brother Sigismund inherited Brandenburg, while John received the newly-established Duchy of Görlitz in Upper Lusatia.

The biblical narrative of Pentecost, where the 12 Disciples of Christ ( Acts 1: 13, 26 ) along with about 108 other individuals ( Acts 1: 15 ), including many women, among whom was Mary the mother of Jesus ( Acts 1: 14 ) received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room, is given in the second chapter of the Book of Acts.

In Upper, or eastern, Brittany, the traditional language is Gallo, an Oïl language, which has also received regional recognition and is in the process of being revived.

While Nova Scotia ( including New Brunswick ) received slightly more than half of this influx, many Loyalists also settled in the Province of Quebec, which by the Constitutional Act of 1791 was separated into a predominantly English Upper Canada and a predominantly French Lower Canada.

When Michigan became the 26th state in 1837, the western two-thirds of the Upper Peninsula was included as a compromise ( Ohio received the " Toledo Strip ").

( now Toronto, Ontario ), the son of Daniel McDougall and Hannah Matthews, McDougall received his education at Victoria College in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and in 1847, began practicing law as an attorney and solicitor in Upper Canada.

In 175 he received the honor of a suffect consulship and until 185, Pertinax was governor of the provinces of Upper and Lower Moesia, Dacia, Syria and finally governor of Britain.

The township of York, which until 1793 had been known as " Toronto ", incorporated as a city ( meaning it received local self-government ) on March 6, 1834, taking the name of " the City of Toronto " to distinguish it from New York City and the dozen other settlements named ' York ' in Upper Canada.

Mackenzie's reform proposals resulted in no action, however, since Sir Francis Bond Head, who was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada in 1836, received instructions from the Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Lord Glenelg, to disregard the Seventh Report on Grievances.

In 1848, the Province of Canada ( which had been formed out of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841 upon the recommendation of Lord Durham ) received responsible government, with Lord Elgin being the first Governor General of the Province of Canada to accept the Legislative Assembly's advice as to whom to appoint to the Executive Council and hence the cabinet, instead of appointing the cabinet himself.

Her father, Thomas Ingersoll, who had fought on the side of the American revolutionaries during the War, had moved his family to the Niagara region of Upper Canada in 1795 after he had applied for and received a land grant.

The Americans also demanded and received several thousand pounds in Army Bills, which had been in the keeping of Prideaux Selby, the Receiver General of Upper Canada, who was mortally ill.

In 2009, the Upper School's student literary arts magazine, " Gallimaufry ", received a Gold Crown award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

In 1524 Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored in what is now called The Narrows, the strait between Staten Island and Long Island that connects the Upper and Lower New York Bay, where he received a canoe party of Lenape.

By the beginning of the 19th century, many settlements such as San Carlos de Bariloche, General Roca and Choele Choel were already constituted and received French and German immigration, and other such as Cipolletti, Ingeniero Huergo and others installed in the Alto Valle ( Upper Valley ) region.

In 1349 the brothers decided to partition their possessions ; Louis V, Duke of Bavaria kept Brandenburg and Tyrol, he and his younger brothers Louis VI the Roman and Otto V the Bavarian received Upper Bavaria.

It requested and received permission to test its signal on one of its own towers, the Bell microwave tower located on Upper Wentworth St. at Fennell Ave., for a period of one year.

Ignacy Paderewski forces government to leave all power in hands of NRL in those lands till final recognition of Polish-German border, and in future creation of autonomy of those lands ( after all only Upper Silesia received it ).

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.

Dachau () is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany ( Dokow in English ).

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 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.

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.

The division was effected so that Loyalist American settlers and British immigrants in Upper Canada could have English laws and institutions, and the French-speaking population of Lower Canada could maintain French civil law and the Catholic religion.

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.

In Europe, some of the best toolmaking flint has come from Belgium ( Obourg, flint mines of Spiennes ), the coastal chalks of the English Channel, the Paris Basin, Thy in Jutland ( flint mine at Hov ), the Sennonian deposits of Rügen, Grimes Graves in England, the Upper Cretaceous chalk formation of Dobruja and the lower Danube ( Balkan flint ), the Cenomanian chalky marl formation of the Moldavian Plateau ( Miorcani flint ) and the Jurassic deposits of the Kraków area and Krzemionki in Poland.

* Full ( clear ) text of The Quebec Act-Law Society of Upper Canada ( Ontario ) ( English only )

Although he was not a Peer in the English Parliament, it is nonetheless recorded that he was " by writ called into the Upper House by His Majesty ’ s great grace ", and he then took up the honoured position of an " assistant sitting on the inside of the Woolsack.

Unlike Lords Temporal, who can be appointed from any of the four constituent nations of the UK, only bishops with English Sees are eligible to sit in the Upper Chamber.

By the Constitutional Act of 1791, the province of Quebec was divided into two separate provinces: the predominantly French Lower Canada and the predominantly English Upper Canada.

Worcester was first settled by the English in 1673, along the Upper Boston Post Road.

The nature reserve is maintained by English Nature and is part of the Upper Thurne Broads and Marshes SSSI ( Site of Special Scientific Interest ).

It is commonly believed that General American English evolved as a result of an aggregation of rural and suburban Midwestern dialects, though the English of the Upper Midwest can deviate quite dramatically from what would be considered a " regular " American Accent.

He sat in Parliament, either in the Commons or the Upper House, in every Parliament from the First Protectorate Parliament to the Convention Parliament, and following the Declaration of Breda was the Member of Parliament who moved to consider Charles II's reinstatement as monarch, sparking the English Restoration.

At the age of 14, José accompanied his father Fernando, and others from Sonora, in the 1849 " Gold Rush " to Upper California, and returned to Sonora about two years later, having learned English, as well as having his first experience in defending himself against armed conflict ( Corral, 1959 ).

In Northern Ireland, the equivalent of " Reception " is " P1 ", and the equivalent of the English Year 1 " P2 ", while the first year of secondary school is known by year 8 or first year ( rather than Year 7 as in England ), and following that Lower and Upper Sixth are Year 13 and Year 14 respectively.

He is less well considered for his idea of merging Upper and Lower Canada into one colony, since this was proposed with the express end of trying to encourage the extinction of the French language and culture through intermingling with the lesser English population.

* Upper English River:

The Constitutional Act of 1791 resolved the dispute through the creation of Upper Canada west of the Ottawa River ( subject to English common law ) and Lower Canada around the St. Lawrence River ( where civil law was maintained ).