POLS 2600 Lecture 5: O16 - Canada as a Unique Plurinational Experiment
4 Apr 2018
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Constitution act (1791): creates two colonies upper canada and lower canada with its own institutions and governor, who choses the cabinet. There is also an assembly for the local community. Protected upper canada against the majority of the french in lower canada. Rebels in upper canada and lower canada against british rule wanted a better deal for. Rebels are arrested, killed, or flee to the united states. Sparsely populated until the united british loyalists fled after the american. Revolution (1775) britain gives ubl free land. Ubls (30,000) and temporary british workers, ex. (cid:1445)late(cid:1446) loyalists (100,000) come to canada for land they are a dominant demographic group. They struggled gaining land passed the ohio river due to first the royal. After, they are denied access to land. Highland scots fled canada formed a coalition with the irish catholics and late . They meet in toronto and are defeated by the british.
