Grievances of Lower Canada
Transcript of Grievances of Lower Canada
1. Fear of losing a culture2. Fear of losing jobs3. Fear of getting diseases4. Desire of a better political system5. Lack of control over themselves
With the British immigrants arriving in large numbers, the French were greatly outnumbered and their culture was being smothered by the
overwhelming English influence.
The British immigrants were taking jobs that would have normally gone to the French.
The British immigrants occasionally brought diseases with them from Europe, diseases like
Malaria. Which the French did not want to deal with.
With growing knowledge of the political system in the US, due to increased technology, the French
realized that the political system they were part of was not the only way.
Both the British government and the Catholic church held great control over how the French people lived.
One of the main leaders of the reform movement in Lower Canada
was Louis Joseph Papineau. He was a charismatic lawyer who was one of
the main voices speaking for the people and their rights. In 1834, the assembly he was leading (the more
radical group of reformers, the Patriotes) demanded to have all the same rights the British Parliament
members had.
Not everyone in Lower Canada despised the British. A group called Chateau Clique were wealthy families of Lower Canada
which held power. They were the Lower Canadians which wanted the British way of life, for most of them were British themselves.
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