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Upper Canada included all of modern-day Southern Ontario and all those areas of Northern Ontario in the Pays d'en Haut which had formed part of New France, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River or Lakes Huron and Superior (excluding any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay).he Upper Canada Central Political Union was organized in 1832-3 by Dr Thomas David Morrison (mayor of Toronto in 1836) while William Lyon Mackenzie was in England. This union collected 19,930 signatures on a petition protesting Mackenzie's unjust expulsion from the House of Assembly by the Family Compact.
The Indian Act was drafted in 1876 as a legislative tool to implement the Dominion's jurisdiction over Indians and Lands reserved for Indians 7 under Section 91(24) of the Constitution Act, 1867 (formerly the British North America Act).18 Most of this increase was because of amendments to the Indian Act which allow previously enfranchised individuals to regain Indian status and many of their descendants to register for the first time. Clearly the special status of First Nations people has persisted despite the restrictions in the act.