The French-speaking, Catholic lower St. Lawrence valley, given its own elected assembly in 1791 but ruled by a British governor and oligarchy.
After the Patriote Rebellion of 1837-38 and Lord Durham's report, it was forcibly merged with Upper Canada into the Province of Canada in 1841.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Lower Canada — the shape you scrub through changes in 1791 · 1838.
The standard Oxford survey of Canadian history covering the Maritime and Canadian colonies through Confederation, serving all five cited polities.
Broad national history of the Canadas before the 1841 union.
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