| Organization name | Lower Canada |
| Other names | French Canada;New France |
| Date founded | 1791 |
| Org type | Government |
| Bio notes | The conclusion of the Seven Years War (1763) saw the area of New France become a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which it initially governed – and with minimal change – as the Province of Quebec. Having absorbed a large influx of Loyalist refugees from the Revolutionary War, however, in 1791 this body was divided into the separate provinces of Upper Canada (now Southern Ontario) and Lower Canada (now Quebec) to better accommodate the cultural differences of the newer English and older Canadian French settlers. Each half received its own representative assembly and governmental administration, and as the majority of its population was French Canadian, Lower Canada retained many of the institutions and practices of the earlier New France colony. Despite its large population, the province was agitated by fears of Anglophone dominance. Lower Canada was so called because of its relative distance from the headwaters of the Saint Lawrence River. |
| See also | Canada |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Canada |
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Joseph Moore's Journal