Lord Durham's Report: Text Abridged by Gerald M. Craig Volume 208

by Janet Ajzenstat, Guy Laforest, Gerald M. Craig

Book Overview

In his famous 1839 call to reform, John George Lambton, Earl of Durham, recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be accorded responsible government by uniting the two provinces under a single legislative assembly - a union which would also bring about the assimilation of the French-Canadians. The Report has been criticized ever since - from British imperialists who found it dangerously liberal to French Canadians who despised Durham for his presumed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773530010
• ISBN13: 9780773530010
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"