HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Louis-Joseph De Montcalm, Quebec Act, Floodgate

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 124
• Professor: Steven J Maynard

Document Summary

The conquest as myth and memory: wolfe: the (cid:862)dau(cid:374)tless he(cid:396)o(cid:863), (cid:862)je (cid:373)e sou(cid:448)ie(cid:374)s(cid:863): f(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)h me(cid:373)o(cid:396)(cid:455) of co(cid:374)(cid:395)uest, (cid:862)the death of ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al wolfe(cid:863) The conquest as socio-economic process: the difference demography makes, enclosures, clearances, and the capitalist transformation of europe, differences between french and british state formation. Iii: the royal proclamation, 1763, the quebec act, 1774, the constitutional act, 1791. The conquest and the legacy of new france: of floodgates, dykes, and canals, peasant and habitant contemplate the new world order. In 1759, wolfe and 4,500 of his men assembled themselves on abraham martin. The conquest and its aftermath: the search for a compromise. The constitutional act, 1791: decisive for future canadian legal systems, guaranteed many points of the quebec act. Included new liberalizing features: froze the geographic extent of seigneurialism, any new lands after this point had to be on a private property basis, reintroduced an elected assembly.