How Did The British England Contribute To The Settlement Of Canada
The British Parliament, in 1791, attempted to resolve this issues of the people of Canada, dividing the colony into two colonies, Upper Canada (the mostly British and American English-speaking province) (now the province of Ontario) and Lower Canada (the mostly French French-speaking province) (now the province of Quebec), which each possessed their own elected governmental assembly.
2. The Durham Report
-The division between Upper and Lower Canada eased tensions between French and English speakers temporarily.
-The governor, who was appointed by the British monarch, and a small group of wealthy British held most of the power in both Canadian colonies.
-During the early 1800’s Upper and Lower Canadian middle-class professionals began to …show more content…
-Lord Durham, in 1839, sent, from Canada, a report to the British parliament urging that the following reformers were necessary and be enacted. He urged that Upper and Lower Canada be reunited as a single colony and that British immigrating to Canada be encouraged, increasing the cultural influence of Great Britain on the French and eventually causing the French to submit to such. He also urged that Canadian colonists be granted the right to govern themselves with domestic matters.
2. Acadians to Cajuns
-The colony of Acadia was founded by French colonists on the eastern seaboard of Canada in 1604.
-Tensions arose between the French and British settlers of Acadia, who came after the French.
-Great Britain gained control of Acadia in 1713 and named in Nova Scotia (“New Scotland” in Latin).
-The British expelled the thousands of defendants of the original Acadians from Nova Scotia, and many of them eventually settled in southern Louisiana, the Mississippi Delta region, where their culture continues to thrive today. These settlers are called Cajuns (an alteration of the name …show more content…
Dominions are self governing in domestic affairs but remain a territory of a country. (This country was still Great Britain, and Canada remained a part of the British Empire.)
-The first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, John MacDonald, expanded Canada through the purchase of lands and persuasion of British frontier territories to join Canada.
-By 1871, Canada stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
-John MacDonald also began the construction of a Canadian transcontinental railway. It was completed in the year 1885.
C. Australia and New Zealand
-In 1769, the British she captain James Cook claimed New Zealand for Great Britain; he claimed a part of the Australian continent for Great Britain in 1770.
-Both lands claimed by James Cook were already inhabited prior to his doing of such.
-New Zealand was inhabited by the Maori, a Polynesian farming, hunting, and fishing people who settled in New Zealand around
800 A.D.
-Cook, when he reached Australia, considered it to be uninhabited.
-Australia, at the time, however, was inhabited by “Aborigines;” the term was developed later by Europeans and is in reference to the native peoples of
2. The Durham Report
-The division between Upper and Lower Canada eased tensions between French and English speakers temporarily.
-The governor, who was appointed by the British monarch, and a small group of wealthy British held most of the power in both Canadian colonies.
-During the early 1800’s Upper and Lower Canadian middle-class professionals began to …show more content…
-Lord Durham, in 1839, sent, from Canada, a report to the British parliament urging that the following reformers were necessary and be enacted. He urged that Upper and Lower Canada be reunited as a single colony and that British immigrating to Canada be encouraged, increasing the cultural influence of Great Britain on the French and eventually causing the French to submit to such. He also urged that Canadian colonists be granted the right to govern themselves with domestic matters.
2. Acadians to Cajuns
-The colony of Acadia was founded by French colonists on the eastern seaboard of Canada in 1604.
-Tensions arose between the French and British settlers of Acadia, who came after the French.
-Great Britain gained control of Acadia in 1713 and named in Nova Scotia (“New Scotland” in Latin).
-The British expelled the thousands of defendants of the original Acadians from Nova Scotia, and many of them eventually settled in southern Louisiana, the Mississippi Delta region, where their culture continues to thrive today. These settlers are called Cajuns (an alteration of the name …show more content…
Dominions are self governing in domestic affairs but remain a territory of a country. (This country was still Great Britain, and Canada remained a part of the British Empire.)
-The first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, John MacDonald, expanded Canada through the purchase of lands and persuasion of British frontier territories to join Canada.
-By 1871, Canada stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
-John MacDonald also began the construction of a Canadian transcontinental railway. It was completed in the year 1885.
C. Australia and New Zealand
-In 1769, the British she captain James Cook claimed New Zealand for Great Britain; he claimed a part of the Australian continent for Great Britain in 1770.
-Both lands claimed by James Cook were already inhabited prior to his doing of such.
-New Zealand was inhabited by the Maori, a Polynesian farming, hunting, and fishing people who settled in New Zealand around
800 A.D.
-Cook, when he reached Australia, considered it to be uninhabited.
-Australia, at the time, however, was inhabited by “Aborigines;” the term was developed later by Europeans and is in reference to the native peoples of