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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

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