# Do Canada and Australia have titled nobility?

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**Created:** [April 29, 2011, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-canada-and-australia-have-titled-nobility/580183 "2011-04-29T17:08:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-canada-and-australia-have-titled-nobility/580183/21 "2011-05-04T12:59:18Z")

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You’re welcome! but I see I cut’n’pasted the wrong part of your post! :o

I meant to refer to this passage:

[QUOTE=A. Gwilliam]  
In the eighteenth century, either the Quebec Act, or the legislation setting up Lower Canada and Upper Canada (I forget which) apparently made provision for the creation of colonial hereditary peerages; but this was never acted upon.  
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The 1791 Constitutional Act was for Upper and Lower Canada, not for Maryland or Nova Scotia - sorry 'bout that.

The Nova Scotia system wasn’t peerages, by the way, but [Nova Scotia Baronetages](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baronetage_of_Nova_Scotia#Baronetage_of_Nova_Scotia_.281625-1706.29), planned originally by James VI & I, and implemented by Charles I. They weren’t awarded to local Nova Scotians, however, but to Scots who got baronetages in return for financial support for a Nova Scotia plantation scheme. Originally a separate order of baronetages, they apparently were merged into the baronetages of the UK in 1707.

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**Author:** ![A.Gwilliam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@A.Gwilliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.Gwilliam)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-canada-and-australia-have-titled-nobility/580183/22 "2011-05-04T13:18:54Z")

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> [@Northern\_Piper](#):
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> You’re welcome! but I see I cut’n’pasted the wrong part of your post! :o
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> The 1791 Constitutional Act was for Upper and Lower Canada, not for Maryland or Nova Scotia - sorry 'bout that.

I knew what you meant… such that I hadn’t even bothered looking at which bit of my post you’d quoted! ⭕D

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> The Nova Scotia system wasn’t peerages, by the way, but [Nova Scotia Baronetages](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baronetage_of_Nova_Scotia#Baronetage_of_Nova_Scotia_.281625-1706.29), planned originally by James VI & I, and implemented by Charles I. They weren’t awarded to local Nova Scotians, however, but to Scots who got baronetages in return for financial support for a Nova Scotia plantation scheme.

Good call. The various charters, etc. relating to the North American colonies in the early seventeenth century have so many twists and turns, it’s difficult to remember who did what where, why, when, and for whom!

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> Originally a separate order of baronetages, they apparently were merged into the baronetages of the UK in 1707.

Ah! I’d wondered what had happened to them… although not so much as to ever actually bother finding out! 🙂

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