DCHP-3

Constitutional Act

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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— Hist.

the act passed in 1791 which created Upper and Lower Canada on the basis of a British Constitution and with all the machinery of a British colonial province.

Quotations

1828
Some colour was lent to this view by the language of the Constitutional Act; and from the earliest times the government clique had been composed of members of the Church of England.
1915
The Constitutional Act seemed on the surface a very liberal measure.
1963
. . . in 1791 the British parliament passed the Constitutional Act.