HISB40H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Lower Canada, Bicameralism, Great Coalition

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The impact of ie. structural decisions during the confederation era. Originally a meeting between the atlantic premier"s(including new found- land) To talk about a federation of their own (between the atlantic provinces) When the upper canadian"s found out, they crashed the meeting and ended up turning it into a sales pitch towards the atlantic provinces to establish a new kind of super colony. Was not independence day (unlike the usa where they declared indepen- dence against britain on july 4th, 1776) July 1, 1867 - designation of differentiating status within the british empire by the empire itself. What was created was still a colony with its head of state remaining the british state. Prior to 1931, canada was still part of the british empire. The bna maintained the power of dissallowance by the british par- liament. This gave the british colo- nial office the ability to dissallow any law passed by any of its colonies.

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