DCHP-3

Upper Canadian

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a native or resident of Upper Canada. See note at Upper-Canada.

Quotations

1822
They should learn not to asperse the well-tried loyalty of the Upper Canadians.
1849
Once resolved that it had to leave Montreal, Kingston was the only place which could possibly have been selected as the permanent seat; it would have been unjust to take the Lower Canadians always so far West as Toronto -- it would have been equally unjust to take the Upper Canadians always so far East as Quebec.
1871
He frowned constantly and persistently on all the Ontario residents here, and to this day, out of nearly twenty appointments made, there is not one single Upper Canadian.
1966
Premier Robarts wishes Nova Scotians would stop referring to persons who live in Ontario as Upper Canadians.