HIST 1300 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading: Susanna Moodie, Lower Canada, Evangelical Press
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One facet of the new order which temperance circles envisioned: society"s needs were to take clear precedence over individual liberty (89) Women to assume hallowed social role (89) In the literature sent out across canada held up the ideal of a haven- like home that was under the watch of a female angel who put aside her own personal desires for the nurturing of the young (89) The theory was that if christian principals were instilled from infancy moral conduct would come naturally for the next generation thusly transforming society for the next generation (89) Even before the 1800s some canadian elites began to agree with. By 1840 commercial development grew along with the growth of towns to this (89) and increase in schooling creating larger middle class (89) The first family" paper that reached wide circulation across the province of canada was john dougall"s montreal publications: the.