412 Canada. 



At first, under English rule, the territory, then 

 including the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, formed one colony, 

 but after the war of the Revolution, in 1791, the 

 territory remaining English was divided into two 

 separately governed provinces, Upper and Lower, or 

 West and East Canada. They were re-united in 

 1840, and continued so until 1867 when the so-called 

 Union or British North America Act effected the 

 present organization of the Dominion of Canada, a 

 federal union, comprising only the provinces of On- 

 tario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 

 After various combinations and subdivisions all of the 

 British Possessions in North America, except New- 

 foundland and its dependencies in Labrador, came into 

 the union, and, in 1882, the union was completed 

 with the then seven provinces (those mentioned with 

 Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and British Colum- 

 bia) and all the organized and unorganized territory. 



In the same year, four territories, Assiniboia, 

 Saskatchewan, Alberta and Athabasca, in 1895 the 

 territory of Ungava in Labrador, and in 1898 that of 

 Yukon were organized, with a view of their eventual 

 elevation into provinces, the relationships of the 

 federation being quite similar to that of the states 

 and territories in the United States. 



In 1905, the Western territories were organized 

 into two provinces, Saskatchewan and Alberta. 



The government, although practically much like 

 a republic and largely independent of the home 

 country, is theoretically a limited monarchy, the king 

 being represented by a Governor-General, appointed 



