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A Population Boom
Former soldiers and people from the United Kingdom went to Canada because of poverty and overcrowding. People started to leave their rural communities to work in large cities, living conditions started decreasing and poverty and overcrowding were increasing. Britain looked at Canada as a way to get rid of poverty and overcrowding and people saw Canada as a way to get ahead economically or socially. -
The End of The War of 1812
The War of 1812 basically ended with a draw, the British and the Americans signed The Treaty of Ghent in Belgium. They signed the treaty on December 24, 1814, and the treaty went into effect on February 15, 1815. --------------------- Picture Citation: Forestier, Amédée. “The Signing of the Treaty of Ghent, Christmas Eve, 1814.” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, United States, 1914.
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The Battle of Seven Oaks
The Battle of Seven Oaks was fought between the Hudson’s Bay Company and The Northwest Company. The Northwest Company feared that the Hudson’s Bay Company’s “Red River Settlement” would disrupt the buffalo hunt and cut off their food supply. 61 Métis attacked 25 Hudson’s Bay employees, the battle killed 20 people and 1 Métis. ----------------------- Picture Citations: William, Jeffery. The Fight at Seven Oaks, 1816. Ottawa.
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The Cholera Epidemic
Cholera is a very contagious and fatal disease, it was brought over to Canada by immigrant ships. Cholera gives a person with it diarrhea, fever and dehydration. ------------------- Picture Source: Slade, Robin. Cholera Bulletin. Toronto, Canada, 1832.
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Rising Tensions
An Irish man called Daniel Tracy was resentful of Britain’s power over the Irish and Canadiens in Montréal. He founded 2 newspapers, in one of them called The Vindicator he criticized Lower Canada’s government (which was ruled by the British), he was jailed for his criticism for 40 days after his jail time he ran for office in Montreal. When people started to vote in May, fights started to break out, the British soldiers who were in Montreal shot into the crowd because they were “rebelling”. -
Rebellions in Lower Canada
Rebellions started to form in Lower Canada after a riot between French Reformers and British Loyalists, the French Reformers called the Patriotes started to boycott British goods. British troops tried to stop the unrest by arresting Parti Patriote leaders but the Patriotes countered them by uprising at Saint-Denis with 800 Patriotes, the Patriotes won the battle because the British retreated. Two days later the British Army defeated the Patriotes in the battle of Saint-Charles. -
The Change In The Government System
A person named John George Lambton or Lord Durham was sent to Canada by Queen Victoria and The British Government to solve the unrest. He made 3 recommendations on how to solve the unrest, his first recommendation was to make a Responsible Government, his second recommendation was to unite Upper and Lower Canada, and his third and last recommendation was to assimilate Canadiens. Meaning they would have to stop speaking French and lose their culture and instead adopt British ways.
