The part of Quebec retained after 1783 was split into the primarily French-speaking Lower Canada and the primarily English-speaking Upper Canada in 1791.
Born in Quebec City, Lower Canada, Lavigueur taught piano, violin, and wind instruments at the Petit Séminaire de Québec from 1853 to 1881.
From 1837 to 1841 he led a scientific expedition to Canada where he studied the fauna of the Canadian lakes and the political systems of Upper and Lower Canada (roughly corresponding to the modern provinces of Ontario and Quebec) and of the United States.
A native of Montréal in Lower Canada, Cox settled in Ohio in the 1840s, served in the Ohio Senate from 1859 to 1861, and later served as the United States Secretary of the Interior during the Grant administration.
Many works from this "mature" period cover subjects from both Upper Canada and Lower Canada with Niagara Falls producing some of the finest work.
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Born in Hatley, Stanstead County, Lower Canada, the son of American born United Empire Loyalists, Moore was president of the Waterloo and Magog Railway.
He had two siblings who gained some fame in Canadian history; Jean-Antoine Panet who became a Lower Canada politician and Jacques Panet who also became a priest.
He was born in Brompton, Lower Canada in 1814, the eldest son of Gardner Stevens and Deborah Harrington and brother of John H. Stevens.
Born in Saint-Joseph (now in Lauzon), Lower Canada, Couture was elected to the Lévis municipal council in 1865.
The street was named on August 30, 1817 for Étienne Guy (1774-1820), a notary and member for the riding of Montreal in the Lower Canada Assembly.
He was born in Henryville Lower Canada to a large family and his father, John Hill Roe, was a doctor.
He was born into an upper-class family in the village of L'Assomption, then in Lower Canada.
Born in Hemmingford, Lower Canada (now Quebec), the son of John Scriver and Lucretia Manning, he studied at the Workman's School in Montreal and the University of Vermont.
The Lower Canada Rebellion (French: La rébellion du Bas-Canada), commonly referred to as the Patriots' War (French: la Guerre des patriotes) by Quebecers, is the name given to the armed conflict between the rebels of Lower Canada (now Quebec) and the British colonial power of that province.
Born in Verchères, Lower Canada, Maximilien was the seventh child of August Franz Globensky, a Prussian-born Polish surgeon who served with Hessian mercenaries and settled in Lower Canada after his detachment fought on the side of the British in the American War of Independence.
Sévère D'Aoust born in Vaudreuil, Lower Canada in the early 19th century, established a village in the region of Bear Brook in 1854.
When Colonial Secretary Earl Grey read this report, he forwarded it to Lord Elgin, Governor-General of Upper Canada and Lower Canada in the hope that these inhumane conditions could be improved.
In 1819, Mears took over the operation of a sawmill originally built by Joseph Papineau on the Petite-Nation River near Plaisance in Lower Canada.
Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay (1767–1825), his son, seigneur and Lower Canada political figure
Antoine-Olivier Berthelet (May 25, 1798 – September 25, 1872) was a businessman, philanthropist and political figure in Lower Canada.
Jean Bouffard (1800–1843), a notary and political figure in Lower Canada
Charles Fortescue Ingersoll (1791–1832), Massachusetts-born Canadian businessman and political figure who served in War of 1812 and represented Oxford County in Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1824 until his death from cholera
Séraphin Cherrier (1762–1843), a merchant and political figure in Lower Canada
François-Pierre Cherrier (1717–1793), a French-born merchant and notary in Lower Canada.
Harmon was born in Bennington, Vermont on February 19, 1778, son of Daniel and Lucretia (Dewey) Harmon and died April 23, 1843, in Sault-au-Récollet (Montreal North), Lower Canada.
On June 18, 1845, the Governor General of the Provinces of Canada, Charles Metcalfe, enacted the establishment of local and municipal authorities in Lower Canada, including the Municipality of Petite-Nation which included the Parish of Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours-de-la-Petite-Nation.
George Waters Allsopp (1769–1837), seigneur, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
Hugues Heney (1789–1844), lawyer and political figure in Lower Canada
He was born in LaPrairie de la Madeleine, near present-day Montreal in lower Canada.
Antoine-Louis Juchereau Duchesnay (1767–1825), seigneur, soldier and political figure in Lower Canada
Joseph Le Vasseur Borgia (1773–1839), a lawyer, newspaper owner and political figure in Lower Canada
Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier (1744–1825), businessman, official and political figure in Lower Canada
François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier (1803–1839), notary who fought for the independence of Lower Canada
In 1847, Dessaulles began writing articles for the newspaper L'Avenir; he supported Papineau, opposed the political power of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada East, opposed the union of Upper and Lower Canada and supported annexation with the United States.
François-Xavier Malhiot (1781–1854), merchant, seigneur and political figure in Lower Canada
François Malhiot (1733–1808), businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
Mathew Bell (1769–1849), seigneur, businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
The assemblies, concentrated in the Montreal and Montérégie region, saw votes on resolutions and speeches of some of Lower Canada's most reputed orators.
Pierre-Antoine Dorion (circa 1789-1850), businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
Sir Dominick Daly (1844-1848) - former Provincial Secretary of Lower Canada (1827-1840), Canada East (1843-1844)
His brother James Boyle later served as premier of Nova Scotia and his brother Norman Fitzgerald served in the legislative assembly for Lower Canada.
The seigneurial system was formally abolished by the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and assented to by Governor Lord Elgin on 18 December 1854 in An Act for the Abolition of Feudal Rights and Duties in Lower Canada.
He studied at King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia and then apprenticed in law in Lower Canada with John Reid and then Jonathan Sewell; he was called to the bar in 1801.
He was Lower Canada's Solicitor General from 1857 to 1858 and from 1858 to 1859 and also acted as various times as commissioner of public works and Receiver General.
Thomas Storrow Brown (1803–1888), journalist, writer, orator, and revolutionary in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec)
A roundhouse was built, in addition to a carbon chute, a water reservoir, and a train station named in the honor of former Chief Justice of Lower Canada James Monk.