DCHP-3

Upper-Canadian

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

of or having to do with Upper Canada or Upper Canadians. See note at Upper-Canada.

Quotations

1824
This paper of motley, unconnected, shake-bag, periods; this unblushing, brazen faced Advocate, affects to be a Queenston and Upper Canadian Paper, whereas it is to all intents and purposes, and radically, a Lewiston and genii-wine Yankee paper.
1841
The Upper Canadian delegation will necessarily be divided in opinion and feeling on most subjects, and there is no chance of their ever being so united on any more question of Lower Canadian law, as to vote in solid phalanx for any unfair demand made by the British party.
1864
in remodelling the present order of things Provincial, we notice with unfeigned pleasure that the Upper Canadian Delegates kept a sharp eye to the interests of this North-West territory.
1938
When at his desk the average Upper Canadian editor wrote editorials which more than compensated for the times they were omitted, if invective be a virtue in editorial writing.
1963
This [acquittal] undoubtedly was arranged, as the handling of the transfer of the cases to the Upper Canadian courts suggests.