1. Exam Notes

2. Origins to 1608
3 Linguistic Groups & their characteristics (location, way of life, subsistence activity, social organization..)
First contact
Alliances amongst natives
Reasons for trade
Consequences (disease, war…)

3.
Fur trade (monopoly, mercantilism, company of 100 Associates, L’habitation, territorial expansion, trade)
Alliances with natives & consequences (Iroquois wars, disease…)
Role of the Church
Seigneurial System
Population Issues & Jean Talon’s settlement policy

4. 1760-1791 British Military Regime 3.2 Royal Proclamation – 1763
3.3 Quebec Act – 1774
3.4 American Revolution
3.5 Transformation of colonial society

5. 1791 - 1840 Constitutional Act; Parliamentary System Society
Assembly is created, people can vote
Society
Overpopulation of seigneuries/insufficient wheat
immigration from British Isles
diseases & quarantine
Economy of Lower Canada & Upper Canada
timber becomes the main export
preferential tariffs
Napolean’s blockade
bank created, transportation infrastructure improved
Rebellions of 1837 &1838
Causes of the rebellions
Rebellions & results
Durhams report