Questions about Lord Durham(Homework)?

Question

These are the thing im looking for about Lord Durham please:

-Personality and Strengths

-Influences

-Beliefs,Ideas and Goals

-Contribution to Canada History

Answer 1

John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham (1792-1840), known as "Radical Jack" because he had supported a number of causes promoted by the Whig Party in England – among them the emancipation of Roman Catholics, free trade, generalized education and the Great Reform bill of 1832 – was sent to British North America in 1838 as governor-general specifically to investigate the circumstances of the rebellions of 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada and to make recommendations for the future government of the British North American colonies. His investigation led to the publication, in 1839, of the famous Durham Report in which he recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be united, that responsible government be granted (see text below), that French Canadians be assimilated and that municipal institutions be established in Canada.

Lord Durham was sent to the Canadas in 1838 to investigate

the causes of the rebellions

and to find solutions to the political problems plaguing Upper and Lower Canada.

In February 1839, in a report made to the British parliament, Lord Durham infuriated the French

when he referred to them as inferior to the English and "as a people with no history and no literature". In the report he explained that he expected to find a conflict between a government and a people, but instead found two nations at war within the same state. It was a war based on race, not on principles. In his opinion, Canada was a land of two hostile groups: the French and the English.

  

Durham's Recommendations

to unite Upper and Lower Canada to make the French a minority

to assimilate or anglicize the French majority in Lower Canada

to grant responsible government



Consequences of Durham's Recommendations

Upper and Lower Canada were united in 1840

Responsible government was granted in 1848

Answer 2

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