The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853: Personalities, Profits and Politics

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    • Canada Company and The Huron Tract, 1826-1853

    The most comprehensive work to date on this fascinating era, this book is eminently readable and a must-have for history lovers. Bob Lee, diplomat and historian of Scottish, English and Welsh heritage, was born and educated in Toronto but spent all of his summers as a boy in Goderich where his Huron County roots run deep. His great-great-grandfather Charles George Middleton arrived in Goderich Township from England via Toronto in with his young wife, Elizabeth, and their firstborn son where he initially purchased 80 acres from the Canada Company and built a log cabin there.

    His great-grandfather William Lee arrived in Goderich in the s and served as mayor in he was a marine agent and ship chandler at the Goderich harbour.

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    A record of the Carnegie Libraries in Ontario. Everything for the Roadmaker: It was a very controversial topic, with powerful interests at play. Both are located between Milverton and Stratford Ontario. The church could and did sell its land, and kept the profits. Websites Huron East http:

    He also owned and operated a summer resort in Goderich, the Sunset Hotel, until his death in Under the tutelage of Dr. Masters, who had since moved to Guelph, he wrote his thesis "The Canada Company: A Study in Direction, They have three children -- Geoffrey, Jennifer and Stephen.

    His comprehensive research explores the underlying The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, His literary bent was established in childhood, and he become well known for his book A Statistical Account of Upper Canada which he cobbled together without setting foot in the place, largely from the observations of his cousin who worked as a captain on the Great Lakes.

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    He supplemented his literary career with work as a parliamentary lobbyist, first for the backers of canal building in Scotland, then for Loyalists along the Niagara frontier seeking redress for their losses in the War. In the final settlement in , the company purchased 1. It is sobering to remember that, despite its blustering proclamations of policy, the Colonial Office was often making things up as it went along, especially in the early 19th century. There were demands for compensation and rewards for soldiers who had fought in the Napoleonic Wars, loyalist settlers who had fought in the War of in America, or schemes for resource development and convict labour in New South Wales and Van Diemens Land.

    In what seemed like a win-win situation, charters were given to private companies of London-based stockholders to purchase huge tracts of land at a fixed price, with the expectation that the company would take over responsibility for infrastructure and settlement schemes.

    It was a huge outsourcing of colonialism, and within twenty years the Colonial Office was backtracking, realizing that perhaps they could have asked more for the land given so liberally. Well, they were kindred spirits in personality, and their fortunes rose and fluctuated in Upper Canada along a similar trajectory. They both clashed with members of the elite in York, and fell out with the Governor. The emphasis in this book was on the Canada Company, and Galt played a role only in the opening chapters. Rather disturbing when you become aware of what the companies were built upon.

    What a great story. I am quite used to the outsourcing of colonialism, at least in India, Russian China and Canada.

    ‘The Canada Company and the Huron Tract 1826-1853’ by Robert C. Lee

    It made perfect sense that the Canada Company would buy purchase lands in Upper Canada that had been set aside for government purposes, survey the lands and package them up for sale to British emigrants. But outsourcing of religion?

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    Why had vast lands been set aside for church purposes? And when the Anglican Church in Upper Canada resisted losing their land, why was the Canada Company offered a huge, unsurveyed expanse of land instead?

    The Anglican Church was really in the box seat when it came to dividing up the land. It was like a crossword grid, with blocks dotted throughout set aside for church or govt.

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    The church could and did sell its land, and kept the profits. The Anglican Church, headed by Archbishop Strachan was immensely powerful. He ran a school that educated all the men who later took prime positions in government, and they were very loyal in protecting his interests. Strachan himself was a canny lobbyist both in Canada and in London, determined to hold on to church lands, trying to make sure that the Anglican church controlled them i.