HIST 124 Lecture Notes - John Graves Simcoe, Ninety-Two Resolutions, Lower Canada
22 Nov 2012
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Week 9- rebellion, reform, and the triumph of liberalism: the rise of liberal capitalism: economic development and political power, 1790-1850. Even though french were being swamped on all sides by english speaking immigrants, they internally experienced rapid demographic growth. Seigneurial system out, free hold land system in: from fur trade to timber trade: proletarianization. Trade routes getting longer and therefore more expensive, montreal loses it s power as center of fur trade. Beavers are gone, fur trade pushes further west. Nature of the work changes: timber trade the canal-ers are selling their labour for money- characteristic of capitalist economies: agricultural crisis: exodus from countryside to city. Habitants forced to leave and move to the city. Wear stigma of disease, prejudice between rural and urban people. Hungry habs and irish turn to rebellion: 1830s: economic crisis. John graves simcoe wants colony based on elites: torries/ the family compact: crown/clergy reserves.
