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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a bill for the uniting of Upper Canada and Lower Canada, first drawn up in 1822 and eventually passed in 1840 as the Union Act.
Quotations
1807-1834
The meeting is for the express purpose of taking measures to lay before the mother country a statement of the necessities of these provinces to a political point of view, and to petition for the passing of the Union Bill.
1840
The prominent object of interest is, of course, the Union Bill.
1904
In spite of Ellice's protests, the Union Bill was well and duly shelved in 1823, and filed away in the records of Downing street, whence it was to be brought forth eighteen years later.
1923
As for the Union Bill, so pregnant a proof of race conflict, with twenty-five troublous years of agitation to follow, the histories dismiss it briefly.