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The reverse of the coins carried the then obsolete Coat-of-Arms of Upper Canada. The 1850 issue was struck at the Royal Mint, London, but the coins did not arrive in Canada until 1851. Some of the 1d. pieces bear a dot between the tips of the cornucopiae, but the significance of this is unknown. The letters "R.K. & Co." is not a mintmark.
It provided that Nova Scotia would now use the same dollar as the rest of Canada, based on the pre-Confederation dollar. [54] The value of the dollar continued to be set by reference to the British sovereign and the American eagle, at the rate of 4.8666 Canadian dollars equal to £1, and ten Canadian dollars equal to the ten-dollar American ...
After visiting Upper Canada in 1795, Duke de la Rochefoucauld explains Governor General Lord Dorchester's powers and their limitations [3] Dorchester lays out moves he had to make to keep U.S. Gen. Anthony Wayne from starting war at Detroit, given British diplomatic policy and U.S. politics [4]
The Upper Canada Rebellion was an insurrection against the oligarchic government of the Family Compact in December 1837, led by William Lyon Mackenzie. Long term grievances included antagonism between Later Loyalists and British Loyalists, political corruption, the collapse of the international financial system and the resultant economic ...
Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe (25 February 1752 – 26 October 1806) was a British army officer, politician and colonial administrator who served as the lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796.
William Lyon Mackenzie [a] (March 12, 1795 – August 28, 1861) was a Scottish Canadian-American journalist and politician. He founded newspapers critical of the Family Compact, a term used to identify elite members of Upper Canada.
Given that the banks of Upper and Lower Canada started issuing their own officially sanctioned tokens of the correct weight for their value in 1838, Wood believed this series of tokens must have been created between those dates. [17]
Pages in category "Upper Canada" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...