Geography
It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian Province of Quebec. Formerly a British colony called the Province of Lower Canada, based on Lord Durham's report it was merged with the Province of Upper Canada (present-day southern portion of the Province of Ontario) to create the United Province of Canada.
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“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
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