DCHP-3

Canadas

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. pl.

Upper and Lower Canada [1791-1841].

Quotations

1792
The Canadas are not countries of whose cabinets or muses you can expect to hear.
1963
The reunion of the Canadas would solve this problem, as it would restore the unity of the St. Lawrence and strengthen the credit of the Canadas.
2n. pl.

Canada West and Canada East [1841-1867].

Quotations

1853
Its position is one of great commercial importance, standing as it does, in the centre of all the carrying trade of the Canadas with the Lower Provinces and the United States.
1963
The poverty and anger of the Irish added one more tension to the strain on the public temper of the Canadas in these critical years [1847-56].