The Canadas
（重定向自Upper and Lower Canada）
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The Canadas is the collective name for Upper Canada and Lower Canada, two British historical colonies in present-day Canada. They were both created by the Constitutional Act of 1791 and abolished in 1841 with the union of Upper and Lower Canada.
Their names reflected their positions relative to the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River, the same relationship as between Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt: