CH-0098 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Upper and Lower Canada established
The Constitutional Act divided the Province of Québec into Upper and Lower Canada and established their constitutional institutions.
Not publication-ready. Colonial divisions did not extinguish Indigenous homelands. Verify effective dates before changing boundaries.
- Historical place
- St. Lawrence and Great Lakes
- Present-day context
- Unknown — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Canadiens, British settlers, Indigenous nations
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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Acte constitutionnel, 1791
Assemblée nationale du Québec · · Review: page opened
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-12. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Primary institutional reference opened; draft entry and event-specific geography require editorial review.