Modelled after the British House of Lords, it was created by the Constitutional Act of 1791.
The speaker was usually the Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench.
Some members were reappointed to the Legislative Council of the united Province.
Unlike the other three provinces that would initially make up the Dominion of Canada, a provincial Legislative Council was not re-established for Ontario when the province entered Confederation in 1867.
Notes: The Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench was usually the Speaker of the Council: The Legislative Council sat in the same building as the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada: