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UPPER & LOWER CANADA REBELLIONS

UPPER & LOWER CANADA REBELLIONS. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT. Assemblies made of elected representatives Assemblies could make plans, but needed approval Councils comprised of people appointed from upper class People had no real decision-making power. GOVERNORS.

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UPPER & LOWER CANADA REBELLIONS

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  1. UPPER & LOWER CANADA REBELLIONS

  2. COLONIAL GOVERNMENT • Assemblies made of elected representatives • Assemblies could make plans, but needed approval • Councils comprised of people appointed from upper class • People had no real decision-making power

  3. GOVERNORS • British men appointed by English monarch • Unfamiliar with local issues and conditions • Dependent on advice of appointed councils • Usually United Empire Loyalists

  4. Colonial Government GOVERNOR * The Governor was based in Lower Canada Appointed by Britain Responsible to Britain EXECUTIVE COUNCIL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Appointed by governor for a term Responsible to the governor Appointed by governor for life Responsible to the governor LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY Elected by the people for up to 4 years Responsible to the people

  5. PATRONAGE • Governor appointed all public officials • Governor also appointed military officers • Good jobs to upper class Château Clique and Family Compact • Land grants and pensions based on patronage

  6. LAND ISSUES • Councillors controlled almost all of the land • Clergy reserves and Crown reserves • Land speculation by members of Family Compact in Upper Canada • Loss of land to due to increasing Anglophone population in Lower Canada

  7. TRANSPORTATION ISSUES • Farmers needed roads to get to markets • Land in reserves often blocked roadways • In Lower Canada, government collected taxes, but used on canals • Merchants benefitted from canals and grew rich

  8. LOWER CANADA • Louis-Joseph Papineau and Parti Patriote • Created 92 Resolutions to express discontent • French dominated elected Assembly, decisions made by appointed Council • Armed rebellions vs ruling elite failed

  9. UPPER CANADA • William Lyon Mackenzie and group of reformers • Called for reform leading to responsible government • Demanded elected Council and Executive accountable to Assembly • Opposed clergy reserves, land grants and influence of church

  10. DURHAM’S REPORT • Durham recommended the following: • to unite Upper and Lower Canada • to assimilate or anglicize the French • to grant responsible government

  11. ACT OF UNION • Upper and Lower Canada united in 1841 • Canada West and Canada East created • English was made the only official language in an attempt to assimilate • Canada West and Canada East were given equal political representation

  12. RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT First Responsible Government in the British Empire. The first Executive Council chosen exclusively from the party having a majority in the representative branch of a colonial legislature was formed in Nova Scotia on 2 February 1848. Following a vote of want of confidence in the preceding Council, James Boyle Uniacke, who had moved the resolution, became Attorney General and leader of the Government. Joseph Howe, the long-time campaigner for this "Peaceable Revolution", became Provincial Secretary. Other members of the Council were Hugh Bell, Wm. F. Desbarres, Lawrence O.C. Doyle, Herbert Huntingdon, James McNab, Michael Tobin, and George R. Young.

  13. REBELLION LOSSES BILL • Introduced in 1849 by Assembly which was now controlled by Reformers • Meant to compensate people living in Canada East for damages resulting from the rebellions • Tories opposed the bill due to claimants being ex-rebels • British Canadians protested the bill by burning down the parliament building in Montréal

  14. CONFEDERATION COMING UP NEXT...

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