| After the American Revolution started in 1776, many colonists loyal to Great Britain left the American colonies for eastern Canada. In 1784, responding to these settlers’ demands for a separate colony, the British government created New Brunswick out of western Nova Scotia. Later, the Constitutional Act of 1791 divided Québec into two colonies: Lower Canada, inhabited mostly by French settlers, and Upper Canada, occupied by a majority English population. Britain’s holdings in northern and western Canada were known as Rupert’s Land. |
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