Land Policies of Upper Canada / / Lillian F. Gates.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Gates, Lillian F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)

From 1763 to 1867 the land system of Upper Canada was one of the most important questions in the development of the new country. This detailed study of the subject examines Great Britain's plans for Canada after the conquest, the problems created by the royal "promise" of land to the loyalists, Lord Durham's Report, and the failure of the land policies to reach their economic and political objectives. In addition it covers the land problems in Canada after responsible government was achieved: Clergy Reserves, untenanted and abandoned land, settlement duties, speculation, wild land tax and assessment, and the activities of squatters. Based on Colonial Office depsatches, legislative records, the Crown Land Papers, newspapers and various private collections of documents, this work offers an accurate account of the social, economic and political aspects related to land policy in nineteenth-century Upper Canada.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. Great Britain's Plans for Canada -- 2. The Loyalists and thé Crown Lands -- 3. Simcoe's Five-Year Plan -- 4. The Troubles of Peter Russell -- 5. Two Avaricious Administrators -- 6. Sir Francis Gore and the Radicals -- 7. The Surplus Poor in Upper Canada -- 8. Robert Gourlay and the Alien Question -- 9. Settlement Duties and U.E.L. "Rights" -- 10. Taxing the Speculators -- 11. The Failure of the Land-Granting System -- 12. The Crown Reserves and the Crown Revenues -- 13. Difficulties in the Middle of the Road -- 14. The Land Act of 1837 -- 15. The Clergy Reserves -- 16. Lord Durham's Report and Its Aftermath -- 17. The Clergy Reserves Again -- 18. Debris and Debate under the Union -- 19. School Lands and Scrip -- 20. Settlers, Squatters, and Lumbermen -- 21. Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX