Royal tours of Canada by the Canadian Royal Family the not yet named territorial capital, in the dining room of the Royal Train, Princess Louise named the new community "Regina", after her mother, the Queen. Princess Louise was visited by her family members during her time in Canada. Her brother, The Prince Leopold (later Duke of Albany), came to Canada to review soldiers on the Plains of Abraham, Quebec City, and fish on the Cascapédia River. Louise's nephew, George, Prince of Wales, was in Canada as a midshipman of the Royal Navy, visiting Niagara Falls, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, and staying for a lengthy period at Rideau Hall in
Population of Canada 14,000 to New Brunswick. The remainder went to England and the Caribbean. An additional 30,000 Americans, called "Late Loyalists," were lured into Ontario in the 1790s by the promise of land and swearing loyalty to the Crown. As a result of the period knows as the Great Migration by 1831, Lower Canada's population had reached approximately 553,000, with Upper Canada reaching about 237,000 individuals. The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s had significantly increased the pace of Irish immigration to Prince Edward Island and the Province of Canada, peaking in 1847 with 100,000 distressed individuals. By 1851, the population of