The Province of Upper Canada (French: province du Haut-Canada) was a political division in 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.

Upper Canada existed from December 26, 1791 to February 10, 1841 and generally comprised present-day Southern Ontario. The prefix "upper" in its name reflects its geographic position higher up the river basin or closer to the headwaters of the St. Lawrence River than that of Lower Canada or present-day Quebec to the northeast.

Upper Canada included all of modern-day southern Ontario and all those areas of northern Ontario in the pays d'en haut which had formed part of New France, essentially the watersheds of the Ottawa River, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior. It did not include any lands within the watershed of Hudson Bay.

Canada ( /ˈkænədə/) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean. Spanning over 9,900,000 km² (3,800,000 sq mi), Canada is the world's second-largest country by total area, and its common border with the United States is the longest land border in the world.

The land that is now Canada has been inhabited for millennia by various Aboriginal peoples. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French colonial expeditions explored, and later settled, along the region's Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy; the Canada Act 1982 severed the vestiges of legal dependence on Britain.

Brian H. Greenspan, (born March 14, 1947 in Niagara Falls, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer. He is one of the most prominent and well-regarded defence lawyers in Canada, owing to several high-profile clients and to his record in both trial and appellate law.

A graduate of the University of Toronto (1968), Osgoode Hall Law School at York University (1971) and the London School of Economics (1972), Greenspan is the senior partner of the Toronto law firm of Greenspan, Humphrey, Lavine. He is the past-president of the Criminal Lawyer's Association (Ontario), was the founding chair of the Canadian Council of Criminal Defence Lawyers, and is a director of the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. He was awarded the 2010 G. Arthur Martin Medal for contributions to Criminal Justice in Canada and the 2002 Douglas K. Laidlaw Medal for excellence in oral advocacy.

He is the brother of Edward Greenspan, also a well-known Canadian lawyer.

Greenspan's many famous clients include: