HIS311Y1 Lecture Notes - John Graves Simcoe, Lower Canada, Responsible Government
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American or british: americans were alien to them, british had a bad history with quebec, decided by the continental congress that it was necessary to attack and seize. Paris: con rmed the success of the us included a wide swath of quebec, humiliating for the british, consequence acceptance of us by the british, exodus of loyalists. English and french to exist under the same government or they could split them in to: allow french canada and nascent canada to have their own colonies. Late loyalists: refers to people who came north and swore their oath, they did this only for the free land not because they were loyal to the british crown. The american intension was to capture canada and bring it into the american union: anglo-american tensions, the war may have been for canada, but the us fought britain, not canada. Canada and the world, 1812-1867: the actual war stemmed from the lack of respect the british showed the.
