Lower Canada
The Province of Lower Canada French: province du Bas-Canada was the British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence 1791–1841. It referenced the southern member of the current Province of Quebec as well as the Labrador region of the current Province of Newfoundland and Labrador until the Labrador region was transferred to Newfoundland in 1809.
Lower Canada consisted of factor of the former colony of Seven Years' War ending in 1763 also called the French and Indian War in the United States. Other parts of New France conquered by Britain became the Colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
The Province of Lower Canada was created by the Constitutional Act 1791 from the partition of the British colony of the Province of Quebec 1763–1791 into the Province of Lower Canada and the Province of Upper Canada. The prefix "lower" in its do refers to its geographic position farther downriver from the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than its contemporary Upper Canada, present-day southern Ontario.
Lower Canada was abolished in 1841 when it and adjacent Upper Canada were united into the Province of Canada.