Review of the work in Form II; election of town or township council;
taxes--the money people pay to keep up schools and roads, etc.; how
local taxes are levied for the support of the school; election of
members of County Council, of members of Provincial Legislature; duties
of citizenship.
FORM IV
JUNIOR GRADE
CANADIAN HISTORY
Before the British Conquest--an introductory account:
The French settlements: Extent, life of the seignior, habitant, and
coureur de bois; system of trade; government at Quebec--governor,
bishop, intendant; territorial claims (Chaps. VII, VIII, IX, XI)
The English settlements--Hudson's Bay Company, English colonies in New
York, New England, Acadia, and Newfoundland; population, life, trade,
government, territorial claims (Chaps. VIII, X, XI)
British Conquest of New France--fall of Quebec (Chap. XI)
Conspiracy of Pontiac (Chap. XII)
Quebec Act (Chap. XII)
Canada and the American Revolution; U.E. Loyalists (Chaps. XIII, XV)
Constitutional Act--Representative Government (Chap. XIV)
Social Conditions, 1763-1812 (Chap. XV)
Hudson's Bay Company (Chaps. VIII, XVI, XXI)
North-West Company (Chap. XVI)
Exploration in North-West--Hearne, Mackenzie, Fraser, Thompson (Chap.
XVI)
War of 1812-14 (Chap. XVII)
Family Compact (Chap. XVII)
Clergy Reserves (Chap. XVII)
William Lyon Mackenzie (Chap. XVII)
Lord Durham, Act of Union, 1840--Responsible Government (Chap. XVIII)
Social Progress, 1812-1841 (Chap. XIX)
Settlement of the North-West--Selkirk (Chaps. XVI, XX)
Confederation of the Provinces, 1867 (Chap. XXII)
Intercolonial Railway (Chap. XXIV)
Expansion of the Dominion by addition of new provinces (Chap. XXII)
Social Progress, 1841-1867 (Chap. XXIII)
Canadian Pacific Railway (Chap. XXIV)
Riel Rebellion (Chap. XXIV)
Disputes between Canada and the United States since 1814 settled by
treaty or arbitration. The Hundred Years of Peace
Canada, at the opening of the twentieth century; transportation,
industry, means of defence, education (Chap. XXV)
Ontario since Confederation: John Sandfield Macdonald, Sir Oliver Mowat,
Arthur Sturgis Hardy, Sir George W. Ross, Sir James P. Whitney (Chap.
XXVI)
An account of how Canada is governed, simple and concrete and as far as
possible related to the experience of the pupils; Municipal Government,
Provincial Government, Federal Government (Chap. XXVII)
FORM IV
SENIOR GRADE
BRITISH
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