The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Vll feudal and ecclesiastical frame-work for the youngnation, and into that Procrustean bed the growth of population, and the proportions of society were forced. The State fixed governments at Montreal, Three Rivers, and Quebec ;there towns arose :she divided the rich banks of the St. Lawrence and of the Richelieu into seigneuries; there population spread :she placed posts on the lakes and rivers of the far west; there the fur-traders congregated :she divided the land into dioceses and parishes, and appointed bishops and curates ;a portion of all produce of the soil was exacted for their support: she sent out the people at her own cost, and acknowledged no shadow of popular rights ;she organised the inhabitants by an unsparing conscription, and placed over them officers either from the Old Country or from the favoured class of Seigneurs: she grasped a monopoly of every valuable production of the country, and yet forced upon it her own manufactures to the exclusion of all others: she squandered her resources and treasures on the colony, but violated all principles of justice in a vain endeavour to make that colony a source of wealth :she sent out the ablest and best of her officers to govern on the falsest and worst of systems :her energy absorbed all individual energy ;her perpetual and minute interference aspired to shape and direct all will and motive of her subjects.
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