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Slavery
-Slavery has existed all over the world
-Upper Canada led by lieutenant governor John Grave Simcoe became the first province in the empire to move toward abolition
-In 1807 the British Parliament got rid of buying and selling slaves
-In 1833 got rid of slavery throughout the empire -
A Growing Economy
-The French and British regimes and competed for the fur trade
-The Hudson's Bay Company, with French, British and Aboriginal dominated the fur trade -
War of 1812
-U.S declared war on Great Britain
-Shawnee led by the chief Tecumseh supported British soldiers in Canada defense
-In July, Sir Issac Brock captured Detroit but was killed while defending against an American attack
-In 1813, the Americans burned government house and Parliament buildings
-Laura Secord walked over 20 miles to warm British force about U.S invasion -
Responsible Government
-Upper and Lower Canada were united as a province of Canada
-Formers such as Sir Louis Hippolyte La Fontaine and Robert Baldwin, in parallel with Joseph Howe and Nova Scotia, worked with British Governors toward responsible government
-The first British North American colony to attain full responsible government was Nova Scotia in 1847-1848 -
Confederation
-Representatives of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada with British support, worked together to make a new country
-They created two new Provinces, Ontario and Quebec
-They created two level of government, Federal and Provicial
