The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor

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Oscar D. Skelton. The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor

The Canadian Dominion: A Chronicle of Our Northern Neighbor

Table of Contents

PREFACE

THE CANADIAN DOMINION

CHAPTER I. THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS

CHAPTER II. THE FIGHT FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT

CHAPTER III. THE UNION ERA

CHAPTER IV. THE DAYS OF TRIAL

CHAPTER V. THE YEARS OF FULFILMENT

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Oscar D. Skelton

Published by Good Press, 2019

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1791–1818".

Certainly there was much in the immediate situation to justify Murray's attitude. It was preposterous to set up a legislature in which only the four hundred Protestants might sit and from which the seventy thousand Catholics would be barred. It would have been difficult in any case to change suddenly the system of laws governing the most intimate transactions of everyday life. But when, as happened, the Administration was entrusted in large part to newly created justices of the peace, men with "little French and less honour," "to whom it is only possible to speak with guineas in one's hand," the change became flatly impossible. Such an alteration, if still insisted upon, must come more slowly than the impatient traders in Montreal and Quebec desired.

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