HREQ 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Business, Lower Canada, Great Coalition
5 Feb 2018
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French canada was an overwhelmingly rural society in the 1860s. Canada east (quebec), a small class of french canadian labourers along with irish, Scottish, and english workmen toiled in the commercial enterprises and industries owned by anglo-canadian business. A small french canadian elite-clerics, lawyers, journalists-formed a bridge between the english commercial elite and the mass of the people. Their monopoly of political leadership among the french canadian people gave them their one indispensable attribute for dealings with the commercial elite. Politicians like george etienne cartier, the leader of the french canadian bleu or conservative party which was at that time the largest single bloc in canadian politics, linked anglo- Canadian business and the roman catholic hierarchy and the french canadian professional elite. The constitutional arrangement that preceded confederation, the unitary province of. The british government carried out the forced union of upper and lower canada in the aftermath of the rebellions of 1837.
