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United Province(s)

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the political union of Upper and Lower Canada, lasting from 1841 to 1867.

See: United Canada

Quotations

1841

. . . the Governor of Canada . . . will to-morrow assume the Executive functions over the United Provinces.

1909

The general election for the first parliament of the United Provinces was held in the spring of 1841, the union having been formally proclaimed February 10th of that year.

1967

Brown's solution to the problems of the United Province was: break it up.