HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Louis-Joseph Papineau, Parti Canadien, Lower Canada
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Focused on specific chapter from open history seminar: canadian history: 2. Based on all course content from fall semester. Legislative assembly: executive and legislative councils, chateau clique, responsible government, parti canadien / parti patriote, family compact, william lyon mackenzie, durham"s report. Economies of british north america up to the 1840s. Characteristics that were common to all the colonies. Relationship b/w british empire and british north american colonies. Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 were fought over back at the time. Two largest colonies remaining were lower canada and upper canada. Important demographic changes in lower canada up to the 1830s. Within lower canada they were anglophones who lived in cities (montreal, quebec) British people tended to dominate the merchant class and civil administration: mostly scottish and english tended to control the merchant class and civil administration in. Lower canada: ethic stratification in lower canada, francophones. French canadians tended to be prominent as resource labourers and agriculturalists.
