HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Snob, Lower Canada, Precondition
29 Nov 2017
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Loyalists were people of high social standings, elites, brought their snobby beliefs with them to canada, and somehow explains the difference between. Canadians and americans: reality, small section of snobs, that brought with them their slaves, majority were humble farmers and artisans, 2000 indigenous loyalists from six nations, heterogeneous. Large sections of the humble were free slaves: class and race: the loyalists in shelburne, ns, may 4 1783 - ships arrived bringing 3037 loyalists, quickly grew to 8000 making it the largest city of british north america. Loyalists divided: conservative or republican: demanded rights that were ideas brought forth in the american revolution - Loyalists wanted popular representation in government - unheard of in canada: british exploded - did not like this idea, and feared in would bring a revolution in canada. In saint john river, nc, loyalists (snob ones - 55 of them) demanded 5000 acres each: humble loyalists fought against this idea.
