HREQ 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Great Coalition, Lower Canada
3 Nov 2017
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Having made the point that a legislative union conceding rep by pop would have had very negative consequences for the french canadians, cartier praised the potential for. Canada was in great part french and catholic, and upper canada was british and. Protestant, and the lower provinces were mixed, it was futile and worthless in the extreme. Empire?in our own federation we should have catholic and protestant, english, french, Irish and scotch, and each by his efforts and his success would increase the prosperity and. We saw that a government, established not more than 80 years ago, had not been able to keep together the family of states which had broken up four or five years since. We could not deny that the struggle now in progress must necessarily influence our political existence. We did not know what would be the result of that great war---whether it would end in the establishment of two confederacies or in one as before.
