HST 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: North West Company, Commercial Revolution
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Review of the 1850s and the collapse of the old political order. 1848 struggle between the conservatives and the liberals: this encourages people in canada. Main problem comes from the union of upper and lower canada. Le bleu protects church influence in upper canada. But people in upper canada don"t want this (date) in upper canada there is difficulty with the church and state. In lower canada they want to protect the church in upper canada. There is 3 school bills for upper canada, but many of these bills only pass b/c of lower canada. Upper canada wants representation by population, meaning upper canada would have the most power since their population is larger. George brown don"t want state and church to work together. 1854 there is the reform party, they will vote with the grits. In 1855, another school bill, the pastoral letter. What brought prosperity to british north america.
