...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. ' I expected,' he said, ' to ' find a contest between a government and a people...found ' a struggle, not of principles, but of races.' Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleam of sunshine for England. Although...

...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. " I expected," he said, " to find a contest between a government and a people...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleant of sunshine for England. Although...

...of a war of liberty, as Lord Durham expressly remarks in the opening of his famous Report on Canada: 'I expected to find a contest between a government...found a struggle not of principles but of races.' It is however to be remarked on the other side that here too the alien element dwindles and is likely...

...came upon the spot he was ignorant of the " true inwardness " of the strife in that distracted colony. He says : — '• I expected to find a contest between...bosom of a single state. I found a struggle not of principle.), but of races ; and I perceived that it would be idle to attempt any amelioration of laws...

...came upon the spot he was ignorant of the " true inwardness " of the strife in that distracted colony. He says : — " I expected to find a contest between a government and a people ; I f . innd two nations warring in the bosom of a single state. 1 found a struggle not of principles,...

...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. "I expected," he said, "to find a contest between a government and a people;...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." * Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleam of sunshine for England....

...summed up very expressively the nature of the conflict in the French province. " I expected," he said, " to find a contest between a government and a people...found a struggle, not of principles, but of races." Amid the gloom that overhung Canada in those times, there was one gleam of sunshine for England. Although...

...the English-speaking minority controlled the government. " I found," wrote Lord Durham, in 1839, " two nations warring in the bosom of a single state;...found a struggle not of principles but of races." It is true that some Englishmen were found fighting for popular liberties on the side of the French...

...dissatisfaction. I found a deeper than political cause, a cause that penetrated deep into its social fabric. . I expected to find a contest between a Government and a people, 1 found two nations warring in the bosom of a mighty state, I found ;i struggle not of principle, but...

...hands, they cared little for them as ends in themselves. Many will remember Lord Durham's words : " I expected to find a contest between a government...found a struggle not of principles but of races." The fact, however, that this state of things prevailed in Lower Canada rendered the constitutional...