1. POPULATION UNDER BRITISH RULE

2. BRITISH TAKE OVER QUEBEC
I. THE CONQUEST
1760
BRITISH TAKE OVER QUEBEC

3. IMPACT ON CANADA’S POPULATION
1.PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Acadians deported between 1754 and 1763
Why? The British felt they wouldn’t be loyal AND they possessed good farm land

4. II. ROYAL PROCLAMATION (1763)
CREATED THE RESERVE SYSTEM
FRENCH CULTURE WAS
NEGATIVELY IMPACTED
ENGLISH SCHOOLS WERE CREATED
2. ENGLISH CHURCHES INTRODUCED
3. FRENCH NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE A NEW BISHOP
4. NO NEW FRENCH IMMIGRATION ALLOWED

6. III. NEW IMMIGRANT GROUPS BEGAN ARRIVING
A) ENGLISH
B) WELSH
C) SCOTTISH

7. D) IRISH
Push potato famine
Pull new life

8. Discussion Question
What do you notice about all these new immigrant groups?
What effect do you think that will have on the Canadian population in the long run?

9. IV. AMERICAN REVOLUTION
AMERICANS FOUGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN AND WON

10. IMPACT ON CANADIAN POPULATION
B) FRENCH GIVEN THEIR RIGHTS BACK (Seigneurial System, Religious Rights, Political Rights)
THIS IS DONE THROUGH THE QUEBC ACT OF 1774

11. C) LOYALISTS ARRIVE – 1780s
WERE LOYAL TO BRITISH; FORCED TO LEAVE UNITED STATES
INCREASED ANGLOPHONE POPULATION

12. CONSTITUTIONAL ACT
1791

13. IMPACT ON CANADIAN POPULATION
B) CREATED THE TOWNSHIP SYSTEM OF LAND DIVISION
SQUARE LOTS
AREAS DIVIDED BY THIS SYSTEM:
EASTERN TOWNSHIPS
OTTAWA VALLEY

14. C) CREATED UPPER AND LOWER CANADA
Because of pressure from the Loyalists, Canada was divided into:
UPPER Canada (mostly English)
LOWER Canada (mostly French)

15. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

16. IMPACT ON CANADIAN POPULATION
B) SLAVES ARRIVED AND SETTLED IN SOUTHER ONTARIO AND NOVA SCOTIA
A) CREATED THE
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY