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Slide1
The Structure of Lower and Upper Canadian government in the early 1800s & the rise to the 1837 RebellionsSlide2
The Population of Lower and Upper Canada
Population of Lower Canada (1814)
335,000 people
Population of Upper Canada (1814)
95,000 people
*http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/98-187-x/4064809-eng.htmSlide3
Social Structure of Lower and Upper CanadaSlide4
Social Tensions within Lower and Upper Canada
Lower Canada
The
Château Clique
Nationalism
Slide5
Social Tensions within Lower and Upper Canada (con’t
)
Upper Canada
The
Family Compact
– A small groups of upper-class officials who made up the Executive Council of U.C. after 1812.
The
Family Compact
made no effort to free up landSlide6
How government was structure in Lower and Upper Canada
Legislative AssemblySlide7
Tensions caused by the governmental structure
A disconnect between the Legislative Assembly and the two councils (Executive and Legislative) and the Governor.
Demands made by the Assembly were often ignored or
vetoed
by the councils.Slide8
Representative vs. Responsible Government
Representative Government
Responsible Government
Consists of people who are elected by voters to make laws on their behalf
Can be voted out if elected representatives fail to please a majority of the people who elected themSlide9
Louis-Joseph Papineau & William Lyon Mackenzie
William Lyon Mackenzie
Louis-Joseph
PapineauSlide10
A background perspective of William Lyon Mackenzie…
Born March 15, 1795, in Scotland, William Lyon Mackenzie came from a very religious household and education.
In 1824 he would begin his rise to prominence with his own news paper, the
Colonial Advocate
.
* http
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyon_MackenzieSlide11
Mackenzie’s Colonial Advocate
Mackenzie used the
Colonial Advocate
to strongly criticize the gov’t and the Family Compact.
In 1826, the newspaper office was ransacked.
Mackenzie was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1828
.Slide12
A background perspective of Louis-Joseph Papineau
…
Born October 7, 1786, in Montréal, Louis-Joseph
Papineau
came from a very political family and well-cultured family.
In 1815, he became Speaker for the Legislative Assembly for Lower Canada.
* http
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Joseph_PapineauSlide13
Papineau’s Parti
Canadien
Papineau
sought to reform government himself.
In the late 1810s,
Papineau
became leader of the
Parti
Canadien
;
which, by 1826 was transformed into the more radical
Les
Patriotes
. Slide14
Leading up to the Rebellions of 1837…
After Mackenzie and
Papineau’s
request for reform were denied, both insisted on rebelling against the
gov’t
Both Mackenzie and
Papineau
worked in unison leading up to the Rebellions
Both knew that British troops could not defend both L.C. and U.C. at the same time
Both leaders attempted to align their attacks in unison, but failed…