The Franchise and Politics in British North America 1755-1867 / / John Garner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Garner, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1969
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; PREFACE --; CONTENTS --; CHAPTER ONE. THE FRANCHISE --; CHAPTER TWO. NOVA SCOTIA, 1755-1830: THE ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSOLIDATION OF REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS --; CHAPTER THREE. NOVA SCOTIA, 1830-67: THE FRANCHISE AND POLITICS --; CHAPTER FOUR. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND --; CHAPTER FIVE. NEW BRUNSWICK --; CHAPTER SIX. THE CANADAS --; CHAPTER SEVEN. THE PROVINCE OF CANADA: ITS FORMATIVE YEARS --; CHAPTER EIGHT. THE PROVINCE OF CANADA: THE YEARS OF TURBULENCE --; CHAPTER NINE. VANCOUVER ISLAND AND BRITISH COLUMBIA --; CHAPTER TEN. RELIGIOUS DISQUALIFICATIONS IN THE FRANCHISE: ROMAN CATHOLICS --; CHAPTER ELEVEN. RELIGIOUS DISQUALIFICATIONS IN THE FRANCHISE: JEWS, QUAKERS, AND CLERICS --; CHAPTER TWELVE. MINORS, WOMEN, AND INDIANS --; CHAPTER THIRTEEN. ALIENS AND NATURALIZATION --; CHAPTER FOURTEEN. CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS: THE MARITIME COLONIES --; CHAPTER FIFTEEN. CONTROVERTED ELECTIONS: THE CANADAS --; APPENDIX. THE STATE OATHS AND THE DECLARATION AGAINST TRANSUBSTANTIATION --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487595685; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487595685
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Garner.

To discuss the history of the franchise in Canada, Mr. Garner had to go back well before Confederation because 1867 did not mark the beginnings of a new franchise. Until 1885 the federal government employed the provincial franchises at each federal election, and the provinces in turn continued for some years the franchises that had served their colonial predecessors. This then is the story of the development of the franchise in each of those British colonies which came to form the nucleus of the Dominion of Canada from the establishment of their representative assemblies until they joined Confederation.