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- Title
La métropole contestée: le sort incertain de Montréal et l'intégrité du territoire québécois, 1828-1860.
- Authors
HARVEY, LOUIS-GEORGES
- Abstract
The partitionist movements which developed at the time of the 1995 referendum and in the years which followed led to numerous intellectual and political debates concerning the borders of Québec and Canada in the case of secession. The future of Montreal in the eventuality of a vote favourable to Québec's sovereignty became an important issue. However, the origins of partitionism can be traced the era of the Lower Canadian Patriotes, when Upper- Canadian tory office holders expressed an interest in modifying the borders in such a way as to bring the island of Montreal under their control. In a campaign which led to reports and resolutions being adopted in the Assembly, Upper Canadian office holders found important allies in Montreal's tory circles, and particularly amongst the city's English merchants and financiers. The movement picked up speed in the mid-1830s, as the Montreal Constitutional Association, which had been established in the wake of the 92 Resolutions, promoted both Montreal's annexation to Upper Canada and the legislative union of the two provinces. Eventually, the imperial government undertook its own examination of the situation through the Gosford Comission which visited the colony in 1835-1836. After the armed uprisings of 1837, Montreal's fate was decided in the backrooms of the British parliament, where various political figures first sought to influence the content of the Durham report and later the drafting of imperial legislation on the Canadian question by Lord John Russell.
- Subjects
MONTREAL (Quebec); CANADA; AMERICA; BRITISH colonies; ANNEXATION (International law); PARTI patriote (Political party : Quebec); CANADIAN politics &; government, 1791-1841; CANADIAN politics &; government, 1841-1867; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; ADMINISTRATION of British colonies; GEOGRAPHIC boundaries
- Publication
Cahiers des Dix, 2016, Vol 70, p1
- ISSN
0575-089X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1038743ar