HIST 3510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bradford West Gwillimbury, Commoditization, Thesis Statement
24 Dec 2016
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Essay: answer to the treaties is your thesis statement. Proclai(cid:373)ed after the capture of fre(cid:374)ch territory a(cid:374)d the e(cid:374)d of the (cid:1011) years" war. Shifting relations between colonizers and native populations based on treaties. Key features: covered relatively small pieces of land, provided for one-time compensation of the signatories, through such treaties, the crowns representatives gained title to much of what is now southern ontario. British treasury no longer underwrote costs of treaties shifted responsibility to (cash-poor) colonies: gave rise to annuity system and the need to sell land to settlers to pay for annuities, commoditization of land and land claims. Instead of a lump sum payment, these treaties would be marked my annuity payments, yearly fixed payments. Treaties marked by breaches in rules of royal proclamation, or spirit of those rules. Negotiations occurred amid context of increased pressure for land and social dislocation. Treaties rules sir frances bond head governor of 1836.
