dissolved_or_abolished legislative assembly of upper canada
The Province of Upper Canada was a part of British Canada established in ___MASK67___ by the United Kingdom , in order to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees of the United States after the American Revolution . The new province remained , for the next fifty years of growth and settlement , the colonial government of the territory . The It was the elected part of the legislature for the province of Upper Canada , functioning as the lower house in the Parliament of Upper Canada . Its legislative power was subject to veto by the appointed Lieutenant Governor , Executive Council , and Legislative Council . The first elections in Upper Canada , in which only land - owning males were permitted to vote , were held in August 1792 . The first session of the Assembly ' s sixteen members occurred in Newark , Upper Canada on 17 September 1792 . Shortly before the capital of Upper Canada was moved to York in 1796 the Assembly was dissolved and reconvened for twelve more sessions between 1797 to 1840 in modest buildings in the new capital . Members continued to be elected by land - owning males to represent counties and the larger towns . During the War of 1812 , American troops set fire to the buildings of the Assembly . British North America refers to the former territories of the British Empire in mainland North America . The term was first used informally in ___MASK26___ , but it was uncommon before the Report on the Affairs of British North America ( ___MASK12___ ), called the Durham Report . These territories today form modern - day Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States . British colonization of North America ( including colonization by both the English and the Scots ), began in ___MASK92___ in Jamestown , Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas . The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and ___MASK26___ during which colonists in the Thirteen American Colonies rejected the British monarchy and aristocracy , overthrew the authority of Great Britain , and founded the United States of America . The Province of Lower Canada was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence ( ___MASK67___  ___MASK48___ ). It covered the southern portion of the modern - day Province of Quebec , Canada , and the Labrador region of the modern - day Province of Newfoundland and Labrador ( until the Labrador region was transferred to Newfoundland in 1809 ). The Parliament of Upper Canada was the legislature for Upper Canada . It was created when the old Province of Quebec was split into Upper Canada and Lower Canada in ___MASK67___ .