Ontario Teachers' Manuals: History

by Ontario. Department of Education

2. Provisions of the Quebec Act:

(a) Change of boundaries (See text-book.)

(b) Governor and Legislative Council appointed; no assembly called.

(c) French Civil Law; British Criminal Law

(d) No oath required, as before, hostile to the Roman Catholic Church—beginning of religious liberty

(e) Legislative Council had no control of taxation

IV. 1791 to 1841—Constitutional Act to Act of Union Provisions of Constitutional Act:

1. Upper and Lower Canada divided, because French and British could not agree on many points.

2. Each Province had a Governor, a Legislative Council, a Legislative Assembly, and an Executive Council. The Legislative Council was composed of the highest officials, appointed practically for life, and responsible to no one. Many of these were also members of the Executive Council. The Legislative Assembly was elected and was yet without control of the whole revenue, as the Home Government still collected "all duties regulating colonial navigation and commerce."