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1. Canadian Colonial Government

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   Response to Political Unrest: The Durham Report
   The widespread civil unrest of the late 1830s necessitated a formal inquiry by the British Parliament. Lord Durham was dispatched to investigate the causes of the turmoil in the Canadas. His resulting document, the Report on the Affairs of British North America (1839), is seminal in Canadian constitutional history.
   Durham recommended the complete unification of Upper and Lower Canada into the Province of Canada and, crucially, advocated for the introduction of [Responsible Government](/entries/r…