HIST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lower Canada, Mixed Government
19 Dec 2017
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Response to mancke piece: draw from readings and other sources. Commentary at the end: people making comments are other cad historians. Think about the principle points/themes to be made. Importance of topic sentences: signal core idea to be discussed. Start paragraph w/ crisp statement, elaborate over body. Liberty as a legitimizing political idea of british north america. Arrival of loyalists makes canada distinct compared to usa. Tory touch: hypothesis of conservative ideals for bna, whereas america characte. Bna: allows loyalists to create institutions which shape society in 19th c. 1784: new brunswick made by dividing nova scotia. One of characteristics of migration: regional, not the same in all places. Eventually integrated into ns cterized by liberty and democratic ideals elite. New brunswick is new political jurisdiction (created by loyalist migration) Vs. nova scotia where loyalists encounter already-established legislature by elite. Conflict until appointment of wentworth as governor in 1792, cementing l.
