Excerpt from Sixth Report of the Bureau of Archives for the Province of Ontario The large number of United Empire Loyalists that settled in Upper Canada during the years immediately succeeding the close of the Revolutionary War in 1783 developed conditions to meet which the Province of Quebec was in 1791 divided into the provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. The Imperial Statute making the division is known as the Constitutional Act, 31 George III., Cap. 31. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.