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The act was inspired by Lord Durham's report. Lord Durham was sent to the colonies to examine the causes of the Rebellions of 1837 in both Upper and Lower Canada. The union was also proposed to solve pressing financial issues in Upper Canada. Mostly through poor investments in canals the government of Upper Canada was bankrupt and deeply in debt. It was hoped its finances could be salvaged by merging it with the still-solvent Lower Canada.
It was also hoped that by merging the rapidly growing anglophone Upper Canada with the slowly growing francophone Lower Canada that in time the French fact in North America would disappear. Thus the act also contained measures banning the French language from official use and ending respect for French institutions such as the civil law and religious education.
The new, merged colony was named the Province of Canada, with Upper Canada renamed as Canada West and Lower Canada as Canada EastCanada East (French, Canada-Est was the eastern portion of the Province of Canada. It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian province of Quebec. Formerly a colony called Lower Canada, based on Lord Durham's report it was merged with. Canada West, with its 400 000 inhabitants, was represented by 42 seats in the Parliament's legislative assembly, the same number as the more-populated Canada East, with 600 000 inhabitants. The francophone majority as well as numerous anglophones considered this an injustice. In Lower Canada, Louis-Joseph Papineau demanded representation by population and the recall of the Union the minute he entered the new Parliament of United Canada.
In 18481848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). Events Sri Lanka The Revolution of 1848 (qv. a series of widespread but failed struggles for more liberal governments, from Brazil to Hungary. January 24 California gold rush: Jame the Canadian colony was granted responsible governmentResponsible government was a term used to refer to one major plank of the program used by the United Kingdom to grant independence to the so-called "white" dominions (notably Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and in contrast to its colonial possessions and under the BaldwinRobert Baldwin ( 12 May 1804 9 December 1858), Canadian statesman, was born at York (now Toronto). He, along with Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, is regarded by some as Canada's first Prime Minister. His father, William Warren Baldwin (d. 1844), went to Canad- LafontaineLouis-Hippolyte Lafontaine (or La Fontaine ( October 4 1807 February 26 1864) was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada ( Quebec) in 1807. A jurist and statesman, he was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada in 1830. He was a supporter of government many of the more-unfair restrictions were removed.
By the late 1850s, massive immigration from the British Isles to Canada West changed the previous demographic imbalance between the English and French sections of the colony. Many politicians in Canada West began to lobby for Rep-by-Pop as they no longer considered the equal representation mandated by the Act of Union to be just.
In the end, the Act of Union failed at shutting down Francophones' political influence, especially after responsible government was granted to the colony. By voting en bloc while the Anglophones of Canada West were highly factionalized, the Francophones of Canada East guaranteed a strong, unified French Canadian presence in the legislative assembly. However, their presence remained inferior to their demographic weight in the executive and legislative councils. The government of Lafontaine-Baldwin succeeded at repealing the measure against the French language in the Parliament, in the Courts, and in the civil administration. With the double majority principle, West and East Canada were so to speak "reseparated" and for a short while, both sides were managed independently. Joint premierships shared by an Anglophone from Canada West and a Francophone from Canada East became the rule, but did not prevent continual legislative deadlock resulting from the conflicting aspirations of the two Canadas. Dissatisfaction resulting from this deadlock was the chief factor leading to Canadian ConfederationCanadian Confederation or the Confederation of Canada was the process that ultimately brought together a union among the provinces, colonies and territories of British North America to form a Dominion of the British Empire, which today is a federal nation in 1867Events January 8 African-American men granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia January 11 Benito Juarez becomes Mexican president again January 30 Emperor Komei of Japan dies. Crown Prince Mutsuhito is expected to become the next Emperor of J.
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