POLI 3P11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: United Empire Loyalist, Town Meeting, Chief Administrative Officer
3 Oct 2017
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Important issue in many university / college towns. Creates conflict of issues, students want housing, residents don"t want students. Legacy of the past and pressures of today. 1782-83: more than 50 000 fled to canada. Generally able to govern locally without british interference. 1787 divided western quebec into 4 districts with increased powers of local government [courts of the quarter session] Saw it as creating identities and attachments which were not tied to the crown. Provision of provincial gov"t including lieutenant governor, executive council, legislative council and assembly. Use of english law and land tenure in upper canada. First bill of first succession of legislative assembly of upper canada. Permitted annual town meetings to appoint: town clerk, assessors, tax collector, road overseers, pound keeper, and town warden (to rep inhabitants in quarter sessions court) A law also passed regarding assessment - allowing residents to raise money to pay costs of courts and jails, salaries, roads.
