HREQ 3125 Study Guide - Final Guide: Canada Pension Plan, October Crisis, Quebec Nationalism
16 Oct 2016
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Upper and lower canada were divided primarily by their language and demographic of settlement (lower canada was later the quebec region, and thus was part of the. French colonies in the years of early settlement in canada). At the time, there was a strong sense of nationalism from the francophone inhabitants and their original background from france. They were a tight-knit community, that stayed that way, through to (and beyond) the confederation of canada in 1867. The drive for confederation came mainly from the idea that being within the dominion of canada would allow the region (province of quebec) further economic development, commercialization, access to resources and investors, etc. Although there was an existing english-french deadlock in society, it was not obviously addressed at the time of confederation. One way that people got around this was the concept of rep by pop, saying that the province could basically send its own people to represent their interests to federal state.
