Key features of Upper and Lower Canada

Question 1

UPPER CANADA:

1. What fraction of land were the Anglican Church given by Family Compact?
2. How did the rest of the population feel about this?
3. Who did reformers in the LA want to widen the vote to?
4. Which group were resented in UC?

Answer 1

1. 1/7.
2. Deeply resented it -> mostly Methodists.
3. Poorer men (less obscenely rich men).
4. Irish immigrants.

Question 2

LOWER CANADA:

1. Who was land granted to?
2. What did the Seigneurial system cause?
   - Rich landowners _____ land to peasants.
3. Who began to seek political reform in LC?
   - Who did they want to protect?

Answer 2

1. A seigneur (essentially a feudal lord).
2. Widespread poverty.
   - Rented.
3. Patriotes.
   - French farmers and small merchants.