HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lower Canada, Quebec Act, Navigation Acts
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December 10 14: online on moodle, 2 essay questions. What british law granted french canadians expanded rights in the eighteenth century while angering american patriots who saw the law as an intolerable act : quebec act, 1774. Constitutional act of 1791 after british war of independence: created colonies of upper and lower canada. Fur trade from 1670 to 1821: fur traders engaged in global trade. The first settler colony of the northwest is: Two violent trading companies merged in 1821 forming the hudson bay company. Upper canada, lower canada, pei, new brunswick, and nova scotia (remaining colonies) By the 1840s, each of these colonies have experienced some similar characteristics. Characteristics of colonial society in bna by 1840s. All experienced significant settler population growth, driven by both immigration and national increase (also high birthrate: would have populations that would increase indigenous populations.
