HIS263Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: British America, List Of Transcontinental Countries, The Maritimes
Document Summary
The union of the canada"s and the struggle for responsible government. Beginning around 1840, a seamless web of political and economic expansion turned british. America (a collection of loosely connected colonies) to british north america (a transcontinental nation). The beginning of the process can be identified as the act of union, which joined upper and. In the 1840"s the era of transforming technological change changed the perception of time with communication happening in seconds and not months. Immigration did not slow down and with the potato famines of ireland and scotland forced many impoverished peoples to move to bna. As many as 600,000 british immigrants came to bna from 1840 1860 and many other. As new immigrants were coming in, thousands of disillusioned members of the younger generation were moving out. The first sign of serious out-migration came from seigneurial districts of french canada.
