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Eastern District was one of four districts of the
Province of Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen ...
created in 1788 in the western reaches of the Montreal District and partitioned in 1791 to create the new colony of
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Historical evolution

The District, originally known as Lunenburg District (after
Lüneburg Lüneburg (officially the ''Hanseatic City of Lüneburg'', German: ''Hansestadt Lüneburg'', , Low German ''Lümborg'', Latin ''Luneburgum'' or ''Lunaburgum'', Old High German ''Luneburc'', Old Saxon ''Hliuni'', Polabian ''Glain''), also calle ...
in Germany), was constituted in 1788 in the
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, and was described as: The District was renamed as "Eastern District" in 1792, and its jail and courthouse were established in New Johnstown. In 1798, the new
Parliament of Upper Canada 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 by the Constitutional Act of 1791. As in other Westminster-style legislatures, i ...
divided the District in two, which went into force in January 1800, and the new Districts consisted of the following electoral counties: In 1816, Prescott and Russell were removed from the District, to form the new Ottawa District. At the beginning of 1850, the district was abolished and replaced by the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry for municipal and judicial purposes.


See also

* Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School - founded 1806 as Cornwall Grammar School and Eastern District Grammar School 1807


Further reading

*Armstrong, Frederick H. ''Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology'', Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1985.
"Changing Shape of Ontario: Early Districts and Counties"
Archives of Canada *Pringle, J.F. ''Lunenburgh or the Old Eastern District'', Belleville: Mika Publishing Company, 1980 *MacDonell, J.A. Sketches Illustrating the Early Settlement and History of Glengarry in Canada, Milton: Global Heritage Press.


References

{{Districts of Upper Canada Districts of Upper Canada 1788 establishments in the Province of Quebec (1763–1791) 1849 disestablishments in Canada