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 p ...
created in 1788 in the western reaches of the
Montreal District
Montreal District was colonial district in New France and British North America with its capital in Montreal. A descendant of the district exists today as the judicial district of Montreal. Western parts transferred to Upper Canada, later as ...
and partitioned in 1791 to create the new colony of
Upper Canada
The Province of Upper Canada (french: link=no, province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the ...
.
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
Province of Quebec
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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
The Ottawa District was a historic district in Upper Canada which existed until 1849. It was created in 1816 by splitting the counties of Prescott and Russell from the Eastern District. The district town was L'Orignal.
In 1838 Gloucester towns ...
.
At the beginning of 1850, the district was abolished and replaced by the
United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SDG) is an upper-tier municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario that comprises three historical counties and excludes the City of Cornwall and the Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne. However, ...
for municipal and judicial purposes.
See also
*
Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School
Cornwall Collegiate and Vocational School (CCVS) is a high school located in Cornwall, Ontario. It was built in 1806 and is one of the oldest schools in Canada. The school's bicentennial in 2006 attracted over 1500 former students back to the s ...
- 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