This text described the Family Compact as a 'petty, corrupt, insolent Tory clique', and its importance has recently been questioned by Ged Martin. This document was once believed to have been authored by a student of Thomas Carlyle, Charles Buller, who did write the related Report on Public Lands and Emigration, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the mentor of its actual author, was also credited with i
This text described the Family Compact as a 'petty, corrupt, insolent Tory clique', and its importance has recently been questioned by Ged Martin. This document was once believed to have been authored by a student of Thomas Carlyle, Charles Buller, who did write the related Report on Public Lands and Emigration, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the mentor of its actual author, was also credited with its ideas. This document was highly influential on men such as Robert Baldwin and LH LaFontaine, who formed the first 'responsible' government as laid out in this text. This document was commissioned after two unrelated rebellions led by Louis-Joseph Papineau and William Lyon McKenzie. For 10 points, name this document drafted by a governor-general known as "Radical Jack" that recommended self-government and union for the British colonies of Canada.
This text described the Family Compact as a 'petty, corrupt, insolent Tory clique', and its importance has recently been questioned by Ged Martin.
{Durham Report} (or the {Report on the Affairs of British North America})