Upper Canada
| Upper Canada | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1806 | 70,718 | — |
| 1811 | 76,000 | +7.5% |
| 1814 | 95,000 | +25.0% |
| 1824 | 150,066 | +58.0% |
| 1825 | 157,923 | +5.2% |
| 1826 | 166,379 | +5.4% |
| 1827 | 177,174 | +6.5% |
| 1828 | 186,488 | +5.3% |
| 1829 | 197,815 | +6.1% |
| 1830 | 213,156 | +7.8% |
| 1831 | 236,702 | +11.0% |
| 1832 | 263,554 | +11.3% |
| 1833 | 295,863 | +12.3% |
| 1834 | 321,145 | +8.5% |
| 1835 | 347,359 | +8.2% |
| 1836 | 374,099 | +7.7% |
| 1837 | 397,489 | +6.3% |
| 1838 | 399,422 | +0.5% |
| 1839 | 409,048 | +2.4% |
| 1840 | 432,159 | +5.6% |
| Source: Statistics Canada website Censuses of Canada 1665 to 1871. See United Province of Canada for population after 1840. |
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The Province of Upper Canada (French: province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the British Empire to govern the central third of the lands in British North America and to accommodate Loyalist refugees from the United States of America after the American Revolution. The new province remained the government of the colonial territory for the next fifty years of growth and settlement.
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