Changes To Upper And Lower Canada: 1815-1838

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Term Paper Title	Changes To Upper And Lower Canada: 1815-1838
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Changes to Upper and Lower Canada: 1815-1838
Population Explosion
(A) Lower Canada
· Population increase caused by high birthrate
(B) Upper Canada
· Settlers from Great Britain came to escape the "Industrial revolution", also referred to as "The great Migration".
· US Loyalists left

The Timber Trade
(A) Uses for trees
· Timber was always wanted for building
· Potash (tree ashes) was used for soap and glass

The End of Competition in the Fur Trade
· Hudson's Bay Company and North West Company unite and call themselves the Hudson's Bay Company

Life in Lower Canada:1815-1838

Groups in Lower Canada
· In the male dominated society there were French speaking habitants, English speaking merchants, and French speaking professional men.
(A) Habitants (French)
· Farmland became less and more narrow
· Many faced extreme poverty after 1810

(B) Merchants (English)
· Arrived in 1763 when New France became a British colony
· All of the merchants were rich and powerful
· The merchants made their money by exporting furs and timber
(C) Professional Men (French)
· The newest of the prominent groups the Professional Men started after the 1800's
· All the professional men wanted to be leaders
· A high education was common among the Professional Men

Government in Lower Canada
· System established by Constitutional Act of 1791
(A) Chateau Clique
· A group that held great governing power
(B) Parti Canadian
· People who wanted things to stay the same
· Almost exclusively French

Unrest in Lower Canada
(A) Points of view
· French speaking and English speaking wanted different things
(B) Appeal in Great Britain
· Mer...

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