DCHP-3

Upper Town

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the part of a town on high ground some distance from the waterfront, usually residential in character.

See: Lower Town(def. 1)

Quotations

1764
The House [is] situate in the Upper Town of Montreal. . . .
1848
There is but one street leading from the Lower to the Upper Town and that is narrow and very steep, and the gate way is defended by a number of large cannons.
1958
Quebec . . . is topographically divided into . . . the upper town and the lower.