[2] Prescott County had been an electoral district in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada,[3] and its boundaries had not been altered by the Union Act.

Those boundaries had originally been defined by a statute of Upper Canada in 1798: That the townships of Hawkesbury, Longueil, with the tract of land in its rear, Alfred and Plantagenet, with such of the Islands in the Ottawa river as are wholly or in greater part opposite thereto, shall constitute and form the County of Prescott.

[7] It was succeeded by the electoral districts of Prescott in both the House of Commons of Canada[8] and the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

[9] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Proclamation, Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe, July 16, 1792.

This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: An act for the better division of this province, SUC 1798, c. 5, s. 4.