58 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



Government of the said Province ;' tlie Province of Quebec was 

 divided into tlie Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada, which, two 

 Provinces were separated according to the following line of division, 

 as set forth in His Majesty's Proclamation of the 18th day of 

 ISTovember, 1791, Alured Clarke, Esq.,* Lieutenant-Governor, &c., 

 &c., &c. :' To commence at a stone boundary on the north bank of 

 the Lake St. Francis, at the cove west of Pointe an Bodgt, [in 

 Bouchette's Topographical Dictionary of Lower Canada, this is 

 ' Baudetj'j in the limit between the township of Lancaster and the 

 Seigneury of New Longueuil, running along the said limit in the 

 direction of north 34 degrees west, to the westernmost angle of the 

 said Seigneury of New Longueuil ; thence along the north-western 

 boundary of the Seigneury of Vaudreuil, running north 25 degrees 

 east, until it strikes the Ottawa Biver ; to ascend the said river into 

 Lake Tomiscaming ; and from the head of the said lake by a line , 

 drawn due north until it strikes the boundary line of Hudson's Bay, 

 including all the territory to the westward and southward of the 

 said line, to the utmost extent of the coiintry commonly called or 

 known by the name of Canada." [The old Longueuil is situated in 

 the County of Chambly.] 



The Province of Upper Canada is bounded to the eastward by the 

 United States of America ; that is, by a line from the 45th degree 

 of north latitude, along the middle of the River Iroquois or Cataraqui, 

 into Lake Ontario ; through the middle thereof until it strikes the 

 communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie ; thence 

 along the middle of the communication into Lake Erie ; through the 

 middle of that lake until it arrives at the water communication 

 between it and Lake Superior ; thence through Lake Superior north- 

 ward, to the isles Royale and Philipeaux, to the Long Lake, and 

 the water communication between it and the Lake of the Woods ; 

 thence through that lake to the most north-western point thereof ; 

 and from thence a due west line to the Biver Mississippi. 



[Bouchette observes that " this boundary was fixed by the treaty 

 of 1783, but is erroneous, inasmuch as a line drawn west from the 

 Lake of the Woods will not sti'ike the Mississippi at all." In Presi- 

 dent Bussell's opening speech to the two houses of Parliament of 



* A notice of Alured Clarke will tie given hereafter; he was Lieutenant-Governor, acting in 

 the absence of the Governor-in-Chief, Lord Dorchester. 



