Canada and its Provinces

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Canada and its Provinces
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ILLUSTRATIONS
LORD DURHAM AND THE UNION OF THE CANADAS
Lord Durham’s Mission
Practical Problems
The Ordinance of June 28
Durham and Union
Disallowance of the Ordinance
Durham’s Return
Durham’s Report
Poulett Thomson
Thomson’s Problem
Responsible Government
An Advocate of Union
Practical Reforms
Union
CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, 1763-1840
I. UNDER THE TREATY OF PARIS AND THE QUEBEC ACT, 1763-91
Introduction
Sources of the Constitution
The Crown and the Imperial Parliament
Military Government
The Establishment of Civil Government
The Governor
The Council
The Courts
II. UNDER THE CONSTITUTIONAL ACT, 1791-1840
The Crown and the Imperial Parliament
Governor and Lieutenant-Governor
The Executive Councils
The Courts of Justice
The Legislative Council
The Houses of Assembly
HISTORY OF PUBLIC FINANCE, 1763-1840
I. THE RECEIVER-GENERAL
II. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE, 1763-74
III. REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE, 1774-91
IV. LOWER CANADA, 1791-1818
V. UPPER CANADA, 1791-1822
VI. LOWER CANADA, 1818-40
VII. UPPER CANADA, 1822-40
GENERAL ECONOMIC HISTORY, 1763-1841
I. ECONOMIC RELICS OF FRENCH RULE
Early Commercial Conditions
The Indian Trade
Manufactures, 1768
The Revolutionary War
II. AN EPOCH OF TRADE REGULATION
Commercial Restriction
The West Indian Trade
Commercial Friction in Quebec
Dorchester’s Committee on Industry
The Fur Trade
The Movement for Commercial Freedom
Jay’s Treaty
III. ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE PARTITION
Results of the Constitutional Act
Interprovincial Trade Difficulties
Trade Relations with the United States
Growth of Trade
Abuses of Land Allotment
IV. ECONOMIC RESULTS OF THE WAR OF 1812
V. BRITISH COMMERCIAL POLICY IN AMERICA
The Mother Country and the Colonies
The Timber Question
Huskisson’s Progressive Programme
VI. IMMIGRATION AND LAND SETTLEMENT
Early Policy and Experiments
Colonization Companies
VII. TRADE STRUGGLE WITH THE UNITED STATES
A Reactionary Movement
Effects of the Struggle
Industry, Wages and Prices, 1825-36
VIII. THE CRISIS BEFORE THE UNION
Transient Capitalism
Upper Canada’s Grievances
Economic Stagnation
CURRENCY AND BANKING, 1760-1841
I. FINANCIAL SITUATION AFTER THE CONQUEST
II. EXPERIMENTS IN MEDIUMS OF EXCHANGE
III. FIRST ATTEMPTS TO ESTABLISH BANKS
IV. THE WAR OF 1812 AND FINANCE
V. ORIGIN OF THE GREAT CHARTERED BANKS
VI. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND CURRENCY REFORM
VII. PAPER CURRENCY
VIII. A PLETHORA OF BANKS
IX. GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF BANKS
X. JOINT STOCK BANK PROJECTS
XI. COMMERCIAL CRISIS OF 1837-38
WESTERN EXPLORATION, 1763-1841[1]
I. BRITISH FUR LORDS IN THE GREAT WEST
Early British Trading Expeditions
The Adventures of Alexander Henry
Buffalo Hunting
Peter Pond in the Athabaska Country
II. DISCOVERY OF THE WESTERN SEA
Alexander Mackenzie
A Dash for the Pacific
III. FRASER’S DESCENT TO THE PACIFIC
The North-West Company on the Pacific Slope
An Adventurous Journey
IV. EXPLORATION OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER
A Veteran Explorer
The Columbia from Source to Sea
V. THE ARCTIC COAST
Samuel Hearne on the Coppermine
Alexander Mackenzie’s Arctic Expedition
On the Mackenzie River
On the Arctic Shores
The Return Voyage
VI. THE QUEST OF THE NORTH-WEST PASSAGE
Journeys of Sir John Franklin
Futile Expeditions to the Arctic
Back Explores the Arctic Coast
Discoveries of Simpson and Dease
In the Yukon Region
VII. A REVIEW OF WESTERN EXPLORATION
INDIAN AFFAIRS, 1763-1841
I. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE INDIANS
Civilization the Ideal
French and British Policy Contrasted
Rise of Department of Indian Affairs
II. SIR WILLIAM JOHNSON AND THE SIX NATIONS
A Great Administrator
The Great Confederacy
Indian Rights Guarded
III. THE INDIANS AND THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION
Attached to the British
Indians Hostile to the United States
British Diplomacy
Joseph Brant
IV. THE INDIANS AND THE WAR OF 1812
Tecumseh, a Great War Chief
Able Allies on Many Fields
V. LOYAL WARDS OF THE CROWN
Indian Reserves in Canada
Early Condition of the Indians
Religious Instruction and Education
VI. CONDUCT OF THE INDIAN DEPARTMENT
The Johnson Tradition
Changing Policies
THE POST OFFICE, 1763-1841. I. EARLY IMPERIAL CONTROL
The Beginnings of Mail Service
Progress after the American War
The Over-sea Mail Service
II. THE AGITATION FOR COLONIAL CONTROL
Freeling’s Restrictive Policy
The Right of Postal Taxation
Newspaper Postage Irregularities
Official Anxiety in England
Stayner’s Emoluments
Reports favouring Provincial Control
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Transient Capitalism
Upper Canada’s Grievances
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