Canadian History



Canadian History

Answer 1)

In addition to creating two new colonies, New Brunswick and PEI, Cape Breton, the influx of Loyalists in British North America led to the creation of a third colony in 1791: Upper Canada , from the separation of the province of Quebec into two separate colonies. It is the Constitutional Act (Constitution Act, we would say today) of 1791, which formalized the establishment of the colonies of Upper Canada to the west (or Upper Canada) and Lower Canada east (Lower Canada). The British government had no other choice, for the loyalty of the Loyalists settled in Quebec that divide the province. We must also say that the Anglophone and Francophone West of the East began to be at loggerheads. Hoping to end the struggle between French and English, the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Colonial Office), Lord Greenville, the British Parliament had introduced a bill that divided the "Province of Quebec" after an ethnic divide, creating two separate colonies: Upper Canada to the west (or Upper Canada) and Lower Canada east (Lower Canada). In this way, the British government satisfied everyone. First, he rallied the French Canadians to the cause; because the threat of war with the United States was still present (it should burst in 1812). On the other hand, the government created an enclave reserved for loyalists so that the faithful subjects of His Majesty, massively Anglicans and English, can no longer suffer the claims of the French Catholic majority. Finally, the creation of the new colony west of Quebec closed any possibility of expansion of Francophone to the "upper country", now called Upper Canada (Bain, 2008).

Answer2)

Act of Union passed in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new political entity ...