Commonwealth of Canada

-sent by British Isles under Popular Revolution (Heads of British Isles > 1822-1827 Robert Stewart, Marquess of Londonderry (Tory)) system to rationalize Canadian administration

-subsequent Upper Canada charter far-reaching, conceding even an elected governor (with only tariffs off-limits) but also with a permanent commissioner to Upper Canada

1832 def. John Strachan (Bureaucratic)

1836 def. Joseph Willcocks (Administration Radical), William Lyon Mackenzie (Retrencher Radical), Allan MacNab (Bureaucratic)

1840 def. William Warren Baldwin (Moderate)

-finally gets British consent to unification of the Colony of Assiniboia with Upper Canada, after a while in which that was practically speaking already a thing

-opens up Canada to massive American immigration by establishing Homestead Act

-however, bans banks in Upper Canada, esp Bank of Upper Canada

-on basis of Scottish antipathy with subject

-and also bans limited liability companies

-also refuses all loans to get new stuff constructed

-in practice, this results in massive speculation bubble which pops in 1843

-broken party defeated

1844 def. Peter Perry (Pro-Bank Radical), William Lyon Mackenzie (Anti-Bank Radical)

1852 def. Francis Hincks (Moderate), Peter Perry (Democratic Radical)

-leads strange coalition based on anti-Catholicism and support of American-style elective institutions

-however is blocked by Parliament in everything he wants to do

1872 def. J. Sanfield Macdonald (Moderate)

1876 def.

1880 def.

-in 1877, secures transfer of all lands south of 54th parallel to the Rockies

-Saskatchewan Valley Metis rebel in name of autonomy, they form provisional government in opposition to this successfully

-attempts of them to negotiate joining entirely rebuffed

-Upper Canada finds it hard to send regiments

-requires taking them from Horseshoe up to Lake Superior, then across a road, then to the Lake of the Woods, then across a road, then to Selkirk, then across the Prairies

-prior to that, Assiniboian settlers armed, try to fight Saskatchewan Valley rebels, with only partial success

-but by 1879 is able to send troops up to Selkirk, they cross to Saskatchewan Valley, rebels defeated

-causes massive scandal with Lower Canada

-with rise of settlement in Saskatchewan Valley, issues bill renaming Upper Canada to Canada, gets recognized

1884 def.

-Laurentian crisis being decided w/ little Canadian involvement results in O'Dea being deeply resentful

-opens up negotiations w/ British Isles

-concession of treaty powers achieved in its wake