Letters and Journals Ed by T Walrond Author:James Bruce General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 147. CANADA. 31 CHAPTER III. CANADA. STATE OF THE COLONY FIRST IMPRESSIONS -- PROVINCIAL POLITICS ' RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT' IRISH IMMIGRANTS UPPER CANADA CHANGE OF MINISTRY FRENCH HABITASS THE FRENCH QUESTION THE iBISH THE BRITISH -- DISCONTENTS ; THEIR CAUSES AND REMEDIES NAVIGATION LAWS RETROSPECT -- SPEECH ON EDUCATION. In passing from Jamaica to Canada, Lord Elgin went view of the not only to a far wider sphere of action, but to one of Canada. infinitely greater complication. For in Canada there were two civilised populations of nearly equal power, viewing each other with traditionary dislike and distrust: the French habitans of the Lower Province, strong in their connexion with the past, and the British settlers, whose energy and enterprise gave unmistakable promise of predominance in the future. Canada had, within a few miles of her capital, a powerful and restless neighbour, whose friendly intentions were not always sufficient to restrain the unruly spirits on her frontier from acts of aggression, which might at any time lead to the most serious complications. Moreover, in Canada representative institutions were already more fully developed than in any other colony, and were at this very time passing through the most critical period of their final development. The rebellion of 1837 and 1838had necessarily checked Rebellion the progress of the colony towards self-government. It has since been acknowledged that the demands which led to that rebellion were such as England would have gladly granted two or three hundred years before; and they were, in fact, subsequently conceded one after a...« less