. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. I AN ERA OF AGITA TION 21 r The hahitaiU naturally did not understand matters very began to believe that it was a (juestion of English against Frenchand that the Assembly was a weapon granted by Providence withwhich to smite the tyrants wliom an English King had placed inpower. The b>ench-Canadian peasant can hardly be blamed for this.
. The story of the Dominion : four hundred years in the annals of half a continent ; a history of Canada from its early discovery and settlement to the present time ; embracing its growth, progress and achievements in the pursuits of peace and war. I AN ERA OF AGITA TION 21 r The hahitaiU naturally did not understand matters very began to believe that it was a (juestion of English against Frenchand that the Assembly was a weapon granted by Providence withwhich to smite the tyrants wliom an English King had placed inpower. The b>ench-Canadian peasant can hardly be blamed for had not advanced in education as he had advanced in theresponsibilities of government. The voter going to the polls ofLower Canada in 1800, or 1820, knew as much of the principles ofself-government as his father had done in the days of Bigot orhis grandfather under Louis XIV. He had no knowledge ofeven the rudiments of municipal control and management, to saynothing of the theories and precedents and principles and intricatepractices of Parliamentary rule. He was plunged in an instant intoa condition of affairs which it had taken centuries of evolution andstruggle and civil war to reach in England itself; and it was littlewonder if he fa
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