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1n.
the uniting of Upper and Lower Canada, finally effected by the Union Act.
Quotations
1822
Meetings friendly to the Union have been held in St. Armand's and Frelighsburgh, in Lower Canada, but we have no room for their resolutions.
1824
A rumour has been in circulation for a few days past, that it was the intention of His Majesty's Ministers to submit to Parliament a Union of the British Provinces in North America, and to place at their head a Royal Duke as Vice-Roy.
1844
Our late Parliamentary majority, to govern United Canada, having doubled the expenditure of the two provinces before the Union.
1963
In the Union there was also to be equal representation of the two sections which were the old Upper and Lower Canada, now Canada West and Canada East
2n.
the joining in federal union, under the British North America Act, of the several provinces consituting the Dominion of Canada, inaugurated in 1867.
See: Confederation
Quotations
1859
Except union is adopted British Columbia [may] be a long time without free institutions.
1885
Manitoba (1870), British Columbia (1871), and Prince Edward Island (1873), have all been admitted to the Union, but there is no authoritative arrangement as regards precedence.
1953
Tilley again formed a government, and in the elections that followed, with the aid of much Canadian money, the union forces won.