HIST 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Charlottetown Conference, British Land, Rebellion Losses Bill
10 Aug 2016
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William topley and the governor general"s 1876 fancy dress ball. Not a city that was as big, cultural as other cities like. For the ball everyone had to dress in costume. Topley was hired to take photographs of the ball. Nation states don"t simply exist they must be created not only by politics but social beliefs. It takes a long time to create a country and nationalism towards this new country. Lord durham"s report: sent by england to find facts about why people were revolting. May 1838 and spent 6 months in canada to find the problems. That the executive council/cabinet be drawn from majority party and should be responsible to assembly. Legislatures be responsible for local issues (tax, immigration, infrastructure), but imperial government would retain control over things like trade, defence etc . In upper canada he thought the system was the problem. In lower canada he believed it was the.
