Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History

by Ontario. Department of Education

Note: References to the discoveries made by Copernicus, Columbus, and the Cabots should be made. Pupils should read or hear short accounts of Erasmus, More, and Colet. A careful development of the causes and meaning of the movement should aid the pupils to anticipate its chief results.

It is assumed, of course, that the study of this topic will occupy several lesson periods.

THE FIGHT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY IN CANADA, 1759-1867.

In the struggle for constitutional liberty in British Canada, there are several distinct stages:

I. 1760 to 1763—Military Rule:

1. Amherst the nominal governor; Canada divided into three districts

2. Little disturbance of French customs; the habitants content

3. Influx of "old" subjects—their character. (See Ontario Public School History of Canada, p. 109; History of Canada, Lucas and Egerton, Part II, pp. 4 and 7.)

II. 1763 to 1774 (Quebec Act):