Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Great Britain's plans for Canada
  • The loyalists and the crown lands
  • Simcoe's five-year plan
  • The troubles of Peter Russell
  • Two avaricious administrators
  • Sir Francis Gore and the radicals
  • The surplus poor in upper Canada
  • Robert Gourlay and the alien question
  • Settlement duties and U.E.L "rights"
  • Taxing the speculators
  • The failure of the land-granting system
  • The crown reserves and the crown revenues
  • Difficulties in the middle of the road
  • The land act of 1837
  • The clergy reserves
  • Lord Durham's report and its aftermath
  • The clergy reserves again
  • Debris and debate under the union
  • School lands and scrip
  • Settlers, squatters, and lumbermen.