Over-Sea Britain; A Descriptive Record of the Geography, the Historical, Ethnological, and Political Development, and the Economic Resources of the Empire - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1907 Excerpt: ... CANADA History Of Canada Under British Rule.--When Great Britain acknowledged the independence of the United States, the boundary between the two countries--so far as the then settled territories were concerned--was drawn from the Lake of the Woods to Lake Superior; down the centre of Lakes Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario; down the centre of the St Lawrence River to latitude 45; thence along that parallel to its intersection with the river Connecticut; and thence to the Bay of Fundy, along the undefined Maine border, which remained in dispute until 1842. The frontier beyond the Lake of the Woods was not properly delimited until later, when Great Britain and the United States--after the latter had purchased Louisiana from Spain in 1803--commenced the westward expansion of their territories to the Pacific coast. When the American colonies separated from Great Britain, about 40,000 American loyalists, who, because they had remained faithful to and had fought for the mother country, were treated with little magnanimity by the citizens of the new Republic, abandoned their properties and poured over the border into British territory to settle in the regions west of the Ottawa River and in the maritime provinces, the British Government making them large grants of land. A stream of emigration from the British Isles also began to flow in. The French law, as administered under the Quebec Act, was obviously unsuited for these British and mainly Protestant communities, so new provisions had to be made. Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island already had constitutions on British lines; in 1786 a similar constitution was given to New Brunswick; while Canada itself was divided in 1791 into two provinces--Lower Canada, now the Province of Quebec, to the east of the river O...
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