ECON 2P19 Chapter 5: Chapter 5.docx
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Adjustment to the new regime, 1760-1802: the english colonies to the south had become increasingly restive under british. Rule, and the removal of the threat of new france made them feel they had no further need for british protection: armies would once again be invading quebec, this time, the invaders would be. 1763: the vast river empire that had been so much a part of the french experience and economy in north america was excised. Constitutional act of 1791: the st. lawrence valley-great lakes region was split into two, the western part became upper canada, the eastern portion the settled portion of what had been new france became lower canada. Quebec into the british imperial economy: the first era opened with economic upheaval that flowed from the constitutional disruption brought by the conquest, the rouen and bordeaux merchants were gone. Local french businessmen and agents were cut off from their backers and suppliers.