The Report Of The Earl Of Durham Her Majestys High Commissioner And Governor General Of British North America

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ISBN 13 : 9781331055877
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book The Report of the Earl of Durham written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Report of the Earl of Durham: Her Majesty's High Commissioner and Governor-General of British North America Wolfe gave to England in 1759 a colony inhabited by 60,000 French settlers with French customs and French laws. It was at first the policy of the British Government to introduce English laws and customs, and so to manufacture a rigid uniformity; but such an attempt was seen to be both imprudent and impossible. In 1774 to her new subjects England secured their religious and legal rights, and until 1783 the French Canadians lived in peace and comparative content. But that year, which saw the independence of America recognised, saw also a great influx into Canada of Loyalists from the United States. In 1790 no less than 50,000 had passed into the country, and, helped by England with grants of land and money, had settled for the most part in Upper Canada. The British Government, knowing that the Loyalists would not rest without some form of representative institutions, and wishing to separate the new-comers from the French settlers, passed in 1791 the Canada Act, by which it was provided that the country should be divided into two provinces - Upper and Lower Canada. To each of the two provinces was assigned a Governor with his executive, a popular Assembly, and a Legislative Council consisting of members nominated by the Crown. The Executive was independent of the Assembly, and was not in any way responsible to it, being the creature of the Crown, and able to carry on the government of the country and to raise money without the assent of the popular body. With the fortunes of Upper Canada, where the inhabitants wore for the most part British or Loyalist immigrants, we have not to deal. The absence of control by the Assembly over the Executive was not felt so bitterly in this province because both were British in race and sympathy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.