HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Legislative Assembly Of The Province Of Canada, Lower Canada, Responsible Government
12 Jan 2017
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Thursday November 17, 2016
Canadian History: Pre-Confederation
Week 10
Politics, Conflict and Rebellion
Key Points
• Executive and Legislative Councils
• Legislative Assembly
• Chateau clique
• Responsible government
• Parti canadien / Parti Patriote
• Louis-Joseph Papineau
• Family Compact
• William Lyon Mackenzie
• Durham’s Report
Politics and Society in Lower Canada
• British dominate merchant class and civil administration
• French Canadians prominent as resource labourers and agriculturalists
• Emerging educated French-Canadian middle-class
• Lower Canada had a governor general who was appointed by the house of
common? he was empowered to appoint both an executive council and a
legislative council
• Legislative assembly didn’t get to appoint the civil administration, they
couldn’t approve any government spending
• Lower Canada had no control over the government
• British hopes to assimilate French Canadians
• Overtime this system developed
• French did not actually control the councils or government
• Within legislative assembly; well educated class emerged as leaders as the
French Canadian assembly
• They began to be a voice for the dissatisfaction for the 1971 constitutional
act
• 2 impulses: assimilation impulse and counter revolution impulse
• French Canadians control Legislative Assembly
• Chateau Clique
• Parti canadien – led by Louis Joseph Papineau
• Tory
• As French canadain population became for satisficed with constitution they
called for reform which blended American colonisum with French Canadian
nationalisn
Louis-Joseph Papineau and Reform
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Document Summary
Key points: executive and legislative councils, legislative assembly, chateau clique, responsible government, parti canadien / parti patriote, louis-joseph papineau, family compact, william lyon mackenzie, durham"s report. In his view he could see the wealth of his country being put into the pockets of the english minority: 1822: union bill merged the two colonies together. If they become one colony then anglophones would out number francophone: 1826: parti patriote , louis-hippolyte lafontaine, republicanism, nationalism. Ninety-two resolutions: resolution 9: 1791 constitutional act gives too much power to governor, resolution 17: legislative council should be elected, resolution 52: rejection of cultural assimilation. Assertion of french canadians rights: resolution 64: executive council should be limited in its power over public, resolution 75: disproportionate number of civil appointments for british, the 92 resolutions all together finances". Toward rebellion: how did british respond to the resolutions, economy suffering, 1837 crop failures, british immigration. Archibald acheson gosford: (cid:883)8(cid:885)(cid:882)"s cholera epidemics, lord john russell"s ten resolutions.
