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'The fostering care of Government': Lord Dalhousie's 1821 Survey of the Eastern Townships
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'The fostering care of Government': Lord Dalhousie's 1821 Survey of the Eastern Townships
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For the Eastern Townships prior to 1829, when the region was finally granted its own electoral constituencies, petitions were virtually the only means of expressing the popular will. Numerous petitions from the largely American settlers of the area fell on deaf ears in the Legislative Assembly, as French-speaking members did not want to facilitate English Protestants in the colony. A survey undertaken in 1821 by order of the recently appointed Governor of British North America, Lord Dalhousie, provided one opportunity for selected local spokesmen to articulate grievances, particularly about obstacles to settlement. The survey was never published and the questionnaire was limited in scope and distribution, but the author argues that it offers insight into how and why the borderland between New England's northern boundary and Lower Canada's seigneurial zone remained a settlement frontier whose institutions were largely undeveloped nearly 30 years after it had first been opened to colonization.
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Histoire sociale/Social History
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Vol. 43
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no. 85
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193-212
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May 2010
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en
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Little, J. I. “‘The Fostering Care of Government’: Lord Dalhousie’s 1821 Survey of the Eastern Townships.” Histoire sociale/Social History Vol. 43, no. 85 (May 2010): 193–212.
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