Read pages 44 to 60 in your textbook and answer the following questions.
1. Describe the growth of the Canadian population in the Province of Quebec until 1815:
______
2. Explain the changes that occurred in the migration flow towards the province of Quebec. (Aboriginal, French, British, Thirteen Colonies)
Aboriginal Migration:
______French Migration:
______
British Migration:
______Thirteen Colonies Migration:
______
3. Who are the Loyalists?
______
4.In order to avoid confrontations between the Loyalists and the Canadiens, Governor Haldimand did not allow Anglophone refugees to settle in the area now known as the eastern townships or in the seigneurial zone at first. What act introduced a new system of land grants outside the seigneurial zone?
The Act (name and date): ______
Name of system______
How it works: ______
______
5. Why did the British parliament enact the Quebec Act of 1774? P.49
______
6. What was the result?
For the Canadiens: ______
For the British settlers:
______
Read pages 43 to 60 in your textbook and answer the following questions.
Settlement of the Province of Quebec until 1815 (pp.44-47)
1. Describe the growth of the Canadian population:
-practically quadrupled in 50 years after Conquest (natural growth).
-Birth rate very high despite constraints: conflicts, diseases, poor harvests delayed marriages, increased mortality and decreased number of births
-Age for first marriage for Canadiens men: 33 women: 27
2. Explain the changes that occurred in the migration flow towards the province of Quebec. (Aboriginal, French, British, Thirteen Colonies)
Aboriginals:
-After the American Revolution, large numbers of refugees, mostly Algonquins, Abenakis, and Iroquis, to the Aboriginal villages in Montreal region. Migration is short lived, they move toward the northern shores of the Great Lakes
French Migration:
-French immigration stopped
-Acadians who had been deported to other British colonies or to France came to settle in the Province of Quebec , where they were granted land
British:
- 1% of population in Province of Quebec
Thirteen Colonies:
-Loyalists sought refuge in the province after the American Revolution
-Most were of modest means and settled in the country: peasant families and Iroquois allied with the British, freed black slaves or newly-arrived British immigrants surprised by the civil war.
-Later: lured by the free land grants, and financial assistance offered by Britain
New land for Loyalists
3. Who are the Loyalists?
-A person who remained loyal to the British Crown and refused to support the insurgents of the Thirteen Colonies (American Revolution)
4.In order to avoid confrontations between the Loyalists and the Canadiens, Governor Haldimand did not allow Anglophone refugees to settle in the area now known as the eastern townships or in the seigneurial zone at first. What act introduced a new system of land grants outside the seigneurial zone? What was that system?
The Act (name and date): Constitutional Act of 1791
Name of system and how it works: townships – a territorial division in which occupants are landowners exempt from all types of dues. A township is generally in the shape of a square divided into lots.
5. Why did the British parliament enact the Quebec Act of 1774? P.49
-rising tensions between French and English
-fear of uprising like in the 13 colonies
6. What was the result?
For the Canadiens: majority political, legal and religious concessions
For the British settlers: irritated wealthy British merchants