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Subject: Re: [Q-R] am I correct?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:19:32 EST


In a message dated 3/23/2004 8:04:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Subject: Re: [Q-R] am I correct?

It is my understanding that Upper and Lower Canada really referred to upriver
(the St. Lawrence) and downriver rather than north and south. And Upper
Canada referred to not only Ontario but everything west as well as that part of
the USA angling west and south to present day Louisiana.

Dave Constantine in Boston


Yes, Dave, and also up the Ottawa River.

If you want to see the action of the water in the Great Lakes that eventually
makes its way _down_ to the sea via the Saint Lawrence River, stand at
Niagara Falls.

We in the modern age of maps with North and South marked up and down may have
a difficult time reading that the voyageurs paddled _up_ to Detroit or
Michilimackinac and _down_ to Montreal and, from Montreal, down to Quebec. At least,
I did at first.
Suzanne

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