id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-983 British Empire - Wikipedia .html text/html 17435 2239 72 The war to the south influenced British policy in Canada, where between 40,000 and 100,000[66] defeated Loyalists had migrated from the new United States following independence.[67] The 14,000 Loyalists who went to the Saint John and Saint Croix river valleys, then part of Nova Scotia, felt too far removed from the provincial government in Halifax, so London split off New Brunswick as a separate colony in 1784.[68] The Constitutional Act of 1791 created the provinces of Upper Canada (mainly English speaking) and Lower Canada (mainly French-speaking) to defuse tensions between the French and British communities, and implemented governmental systems similar to those employed in Britain, with the intention of asserting imperial authority and not allowing the sort of popular control of government that was perceived to have led to the American Revolution.[69] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-983.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-983.txt