Canadian_Confederation

Canadian Confederation To begin the explanation of the British North American Act of 1867 there is a need to understand the circumstances in British North America in the previous years of the Act. With the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Quebec, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia, of eastern North America, all became British Territory. Treaties as early as 1763, politics, economics, and wars all played key roles in the formation of Canada. To fully understand the entrance of the confederation, these issues must be looked at in detail prior to 1867 and after. Many years after the Treaty of Paris, in 1791, London administered the Constitutional Act that divided Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada, “…with the dividing line running from a little west of Montreal Island to Ottawa and up to Hudson’s Bay Company territory…” . Within the Act London appointed a lieutenant governor, executive council, legislative council, and a house of assembly, in every province. Upper Canada consisted of mostly francophone and native populations. Lower Canada also had a Parliament with the same structure of government as Upper Canada with mostly an English speaking population. For many reasons the government set up by the british, canada, government, confederation, north, act, macdonald, american, america, upper, colonies, province, lower, because, united, union, scotia, nova, colonial, two, treaty, trade, party, parliament, out, led, however, held, established, english, company, cartier, assembly, years, terms