Loyalists and New
Settlers, in Old Places
HIST 124: Canada in the World
27 October 2009

Quebec Act, 1774
• New constitutional document
– Expanded Pr of Q
– Full text in Virtual handouts

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Consequences of
Quebec Act
• British population infuriated
• Americans infuriated

American War of
Independence

Aftermath
• British lose territory, 1783

Aftermath
• Loyalists evacuated, 1783

Loyalists
• 50000 into BNA

THE 18TH DAY OF JUNE, 1784
[...]
YOUR MAJESTY having been pleased by your Order in
Council of the 14th of last Month to refer unto this
Committee a letter from the Right Honorable Lord
Sydney, one of your Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
to the Lord President of the Council; signifying that a great
Number of your Majesty's loyal Subjects who have been
driven from their Habitations within the revolted Colonies
having taken refuge in the Province of Nova Scotia, and
settled upon the Banks of the Rivers St. John and St. Croix,
and the country adjacent, with a considerable Body of
disbanded soldiers who must of course be put to great
inconvenience in having recourse to the Courts of Justice
by their distance from the present Seat of Government at
Halifax, and His Majesty having taken the same into His
Royal Consideration has thought it proper that the
Province of Nova Scotia should be divided into two parts
[...]

Robert Campbell
10 July 1788

Black Loyalists
• http://museum.gov.ns.ca/blackloyalists/

Simcoe Map, 1803, Niagara Region

Constitutional Act, 1791
• Upper and Lower Canada
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Constitutional Act (1791)
Governor General
Executive Council
1792
Lieutenant Lieutenant
Governor Governor
Upper Canada Lower Canada
Legislative Council Legislative Legislative Council Legislative
Assembly Assembly
appointed by the appointed by the
Governor General elected Governor General elected
Judicial Systems
Upper Canada Lower Canada
British Common Law British Criminal Laws
French Civil Laws
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Economic prosperity
1790-1815