The Elgin-Grey Papers, 1846-1852
The Elgin-Grey Papers, 1846-1852

Author: James Bruce Earl of Elgin

Publisher: J.O. Patenaude, I.S.O.,printer to the King

Published: 1937

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13:

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Letters between Earl of Elgin when Governor General of Canada and Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Luther H. Holton
Luther H. Holton

Author: Henry Cornelius Klassen

Publisher: University of Calgary Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1552380270

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From the success of his various business ventures, he moved easily into the world of politics. Luther Holton was finance minister of the United Province of Canada from 1863 to 1864, leading the battle to reform the finance department and to enhance the province's credit in London, England.".

Crossing the Border
Crossing the Border

Author: Sharon A. Roger Hepburn

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0252047117

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How formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in Ontario In 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen once-enslaved people he had inherited founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on Ontario land set aside for sale to Blacks. Though initially opposed by some neighboring whites, Buxton grew into a 700-person agricultural community that supported three schools, four churches, a hotel, a lumber mill, and a post office. Sharon A. Roger Hepburn tells the story of the settlers from Buxton’s founding of through its first decades of existence. Buxton welcomed Black men, woman, and children from all backgrounds to live in a rural setting that offered benefits of urban life like social contact and collective security. Hepburn’s focus on social history takes readers inside the lives of the people who built Buxton and the hundreds of settlers drawn to the community by the chance to shape new lives in a country that had long represented freedom from enslavement.

Land Policies of Upper Canada
Land Policies of Upper Canada

Author: Lillian F. Gates

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1968-12-15

Total Pages: 541

ISBN-13: 148759741X

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From 1763 to 1867 the land system of Upper Canada was one of the most important questions in the development of the new country. This detailed study of the subject examines Great Britain's plans for Canada after the conquest, the problems created by the royal "promise" of land to the loyalists, Lord Durham's Report, and the failure of the land policies to reach their economic and political objectives. In addition it covers the land problems in Canada after responsible government was achieved: Clergy Reserves, untenanted and abandoned land, settlement duties, speculation, wild land tax and assessment, and the activities of squatters. Based on Colonial Office depsatches, legislative records, the Crown Land Papers, newspapers and various private collections of documents, this work offers an accurate account of the social, economic and political aspects related to land policy in nineteenth-century Upper Canada.

British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation
British Businessmen and Canadian Confederation

Author: Andrew Smith

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2008-07-16

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0773577378

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Andrew Smith discusses the role of British investors in Canadian Confederation, covering the period from the construction of the Grand Trunk Railroad in the 1850s to Canada's purchase of Rupert's Land in 1869-70. He describes how some investors lobbied the British government for the policies that made Confederation possible, working closely with the Fathers of Confederation, many of whom were participants in the same trans-Atlantic crony-capitalist system. British factory owners with classical liberal beliefs, however, disliked Confederation because they believed it would delay the political independence of the North American colonies, something they saw as beneficial.