A revised and greatly expanded eition of this important and long out of
print reference book on Upper Canada to 1841. Similar in format to A
Handbook of British Chronology, this work is a listing of all
legislative councillors, and assemblymen, all officials, dates of all
parliaments, and judges and court officials. It gives as well, a
complete picture of local government: legislation relating to local
territorial authorities, lists of counties, districts, cities and
townships, and all major officials.
The new edition includes the basic population statistics, a completely
revised list of the events of the War of 1812 and new lists of the
events of the Rebellions of 1837 and the Patriot Raids that followed the
next year, tables of the provincial and British statutes relating to the
incorporation of businesses, the officers of the major Upper Canadian
corporations, a complete list of post office officials and post offices,
and a list of provincial surveyors, and the major disasters.