First Meeting of the Executive Council of Upper Canada Historical Plaque

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The First Meeting of the Executive Council of Upper Canada

Photo by contributor Colin Old - Posted November, 2009

Plaque Location

The County of Frontenac
The City of Kingston
At 310 King Street East between Brock and Clarence Streets

Coordinates: N 44 13.803 W 76 28.909

Plaque Text

Because of the Loyalist influx into the western part of Quebec after the American Revolution, the province was divided into Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec). The Constitutional Act of 1791 provided for representative government in each of the new provinces. On July 8, 1792, John Graves Simcoe, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, met his Executive Council in St. George's Church which one occupied this site. In the following three weeks the Council divided the province into counties and allocated representation to the Assembly that was to meet at Newark (later Niagara-on-the-Lake) in September.

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