Lower Canada
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Key facts
- 1839
- 534,185 km (206,250 sq mi)
- Status
- British colony
- Capital
- Quebec City
- Common languages
- French , English
- Government
- Château Clique oligarchy
- 1791 1820
- George III
- 1820 1830
- George IV
- 1830 1837
- William IV
- 1837 1841
- Victoria
- Legislature
- Parliament of Lower Canada
- Upper house
- Legislative Council
- Lower house
- Legislative Assembly
- Historical era
- British Era
- Constitutional act of 1791
- 26 December 1791
- Act of union 1840
- 10 February 1841
- Currency
- Canadian pound
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- crown colony
- Continent
- North America
- Capital
- Quebec City
- Official language
- French
- Currency
- Canadian pound
- Shares border with
- Upper Canada
- Followed by
- Province of Canada
- Follows
- Province of Quebec
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- Commons category
- Lower Canada
- replaces
- Province of Quebec
- topic's main category
- Category:Lower Canada
- inception
- 1791-12-26
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1841-02-10
- replaced by
- Province of Canada
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Quebec
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Encyclopedic overview
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lower Canada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.