and at the bottom the huge wax seal , attached by a ribbon to the document .
Ontario was then called Upper Canada because it was next to the upper reaches of the Saint Lawrence River . Quebec , being closer to the Atlantic was called Lower Canada or , the Eastern Townships by those in ‘the West’ – Upper Canada / Ontario .
The document starts ” George the Third by the Grace of GOD , of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King , and Defender of the Faith …..etc.