HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Quebec Act, Appeasement, Lower Canada
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War involving france, spain, poland, britain and the united states. Nova scotia has same structures of government as the colonies to the south. It is settled by immigrants from the colonies and thus there is a strong cultural affinity with people from boston (etc. ) Why nova scotia didn"t join the war: strong british garrison in halifax, an island, the rebels were suppressed. Quebec: the french population was rapidly increasing (a population of 75 000) of this population, roughly 2000 spoke english. The people of quebec were mostly (mercantile) merchants who were not interested in fighting in the war because if new york was taken out of the trade, montreal would prosper (montreal"s opportunity was new york"s loss) Carleton, a british colonel, wanted to appease the french canadians. Act was established to give status to the french language and catholic toleration: carleton hoped the population would rally to support him and they all did.
