American Reacts to Heritage Minutes: Baldwin & LaFontaine, Lucille Teasdale & Naskumituwin 

You have to remember that at that time Quebec (or Lower Canada as it was then known) was a former French colony that had been conquered by the English. So that there was indeed (and still is) quite a number of English only speakers (or anglophones) who lived there and basically controlled the government. As you see in the heritage minute Lafontaine is running for the assembly in Lower Canada (Quebec) and to prevent French only speakers (Francophones) from having a hand in government the Anglophones were willing to commit violence. Lafontaine being against mob violence was defeated. Later, when the next elections were being held in Upper Canada (Ontario) Baldwin, being an advocate of what is now known as "responsible government" in Canada, suggested that Lafontaine run in the Ontario riding of York, knowing that his party had a stranglehold on the votes and no matter who they put forward as their candidate they would be elected. Together the two would break barriers and form the basis for a more representative democracy that would later become the nation of Canada in 1867.

Prior to confederation, Upper Canada is what is now Ontario and Lower Canada is what is now Quebec.

In the first video, Québec is mostly french speaking but their is a minority of english speaking people(Baldwin was not involved during the election day riot), so there was a conflict between some of them probably to prevent too many french speaking people to be elected in the lower Canada assembly chamber of Lower Canada(province of Quebec now) since we were still a british colony back then. Most of the business man and those of liberal profession were mostly english speaking, very few french speaking people were in the upper class in Quebec, Lafontaine was an exeption.

I have to say that I enjoy watching Tyler's exploration of our country's history, geography, events, and our unique heritage! His "discoveries" has allowed me to observe his education, but also has allowed me to either remember or learn of our beautiful country 🇨🇦

Not a single treaty made between collonizers and turtle Island (North Americas) indigenous people has been kept in full.

When they mentioned York, even tho they were in Toronto. York is an old name of Toronto

The Canadian government is making each reserve take them to court for what the government promised them. And the things they did follow through on they put so many restrictions on them that it is hard to get the help we need even when it comes to health care and education.

The leader of a Canadian province is the premier.

Don't feel bad - most Canadians are quite ignorant of that period of pre-Confederation history, involving Baldwin and LaFontaine.

I was born near Upper Canada Village, a collection of historic buildings moved to one site when the St. Lawrence was dammed & flooded in Eastern Ontario. The site chosen was a battle site in 1813, repelling an American invasion. It represents a typical village in circa 1860s. My older brother used to operate the water powered woollen blanket mill there.

5:34 You are absolutely correct. This is what we call "les deux solitudes" (the two solitudes) and that is still true to this day.

The treaties were signed by the British before they withdrew from North America. Canada was made to promise to honour those treaties as a condition of independence. What that meant was for our courts to decide. Since this Heritage Minute, all of the treaties have been resolved and the path to reconciliation has begun.

The Upper and Lower Canada designations referred to the direction of the flow of the St Lawrence River. The higher ground was upper Canada, and mostly English, the river down flows to Lower Canada, which became Québec.

Originally, Canada was the region around the Saint-Lawrence river, so the Upper Canada was what is now Ontario around the Great Lakes which are its source, and Lower Canada was downstream where is now Quebec. (It's the same principle as when we talk about upper and lower Egypt.) It also gave the names of the two provinces between 1791 and 1840. But after the revolts in both Upper and Lower Canada in 1837-1838, it was decided to reunite both provinces into one, which was a way to try to lower French speakers influence and power in their own affairs and also to make them pay for the heavy debts of Upper Canada (Lower Canada didn't have debts at the time). The "Act of Union" is still perceived as a major stab in the back from Anglos by most Quebecers... But anyway, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine was a moderate and thus was elected as Prime Minister of this new "United Canada", which is seen as the first steps towards the notion of the "two founding people" where French and Anglos share a same country in harmony and they did indeed create the first responsible government. Just be aware that although the Heritage Minutes are really interesting, their goal is to enforce the official canadian identity imposed by the federal government, so it sometimes look at history through rose-tinted glasses.

York was the original name of Toronto.

I remember growing up. there was always a fight that would break out between English and French speaking Canadian’s. It still happens today but on a smaller scale

Hey Tyler, there is nothing typical or average about seeing more heritage moments than most Canadians at this point. Canada salutes you, Keep up the great work!

There is a ton of great content from these Heritage moments.

I'm Quebequoise - the history of my province starts with the French colonizers, building and forging relationships with the Native peoples. It was all French then, but when the British came and won - the French speaking people were left behind by France (we still have a chip on our shoulders about the French because of this) and were mistreated often by the British. (Think how old the roe between the British and the French is...) A lot of Acadian French were forcibly thrown out of their homes and exiled. (A lot of them left and reached Louisiana by boat. I believe Louisiana was still in possession of the French back then, prior to the Louisiana purchase - not sure. English was rapidly becoming the language of business in Quebec which made it difficult for the French Canadians to acquire wealth and education. Language had become a major factor in one's success, creating disparity between the French and English households. The fact that LaFontaine was elected in English speaking Canada was surely a first step in French Canadians' problems being heard where they had no recourse before.

My Irish ancestor was brought to lower Canada in 1763 by the British Crown s a slave.. ( no one talks about that it was Irish ,Scottish and Welsh). He and others at around aged 17 and up were forced to clear 200 acres, build a road, church and school, after which they were given 200 acres from King Albert the 3rd. My relatives original farm is now part of Maine and Quebec. Then his family settled in the Ottawa Valley and one relative was the first Blacksmith... The other side of our family arrived in Canada 1662 from Normandy France to set up the Hudson Bay Company. As a 7th generation Canadian, i am glad I am here still because they had courage to survive many tribulations.

Good morning. Learning about how the indigenous people were treated back in the forming of Canada, I to this day as a white Canadian don't like how they are treated. Indigenous people are just like you and me and they would like to have their customs honoured like all others. They need to have everything that we enjoy. I believe maybe not in my life time that this will happen. As well as all Governments at all levels will, sooner then later, start honouring all the treaties. Enjoy the rest of your day.

The leader of a Province or Territory is called the Premier (pronounced "Pree-me-air", with the last 2 syllables said as one, to get the true French sound of it, as it's a French word). Love your reactions about all things Canuck. Cheers from 🇨🇦.

I remember these as Commercials back in the day. They still come up on tv every now and then 😂

Upper Canada is the higher elevation above sea level: Ontario. Lower Canada is Quebec as it is closer to sea level. From Ontario (Upper Canada) the St Lawrence River flows downstream through Quebec (Lower Canada) to the tide waters of the Gulf of St Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean.

The Agnes MacPhail one used to hit hard... also the Laura Secord one... these were part of my childhood and I'm only 42

Look into the orangists burning down the Montreal Parliament that then moved to Ottawa.

My paternal grandma was born in Quebec, and some of her aunts and uncles remained there all their lives, (I believe mostly in Montreal) and they rarely spoke French. Their parents and they had originally been born in New Brunswick so had spoken English more. Also York was what Toronto was called in those days.

"Bucket" has a certain "bouquet" to it. 😁

Because Canada was a British territory, before confederation, there was a significant amount of discrimination against French-speaking Canadians. Which was why it was it was so importance of a French Canadian to win in a British Canadian city. (York is Toronto btw)

71 percent of Québec residents have French as their first language. Obviously, this is far from everyone.

The west island in Quebec is mostly English to this day

To answer your first question, the Leader of a Province is called a Premier. (Prime Minister if you prefer)

There's plenty of Anglophones in Quebec. Yes, it's known that people generally speak French there but it isn't the rule. And plenty are bi or even tri lingual too (speaking French, English, and a third language). And, there are French speakers and areas in Ontario and New Brunswick too.

1:26 upper and lower Canada is something like the misonarry position. I heard that from the house hippo's.😊

The head of government of each province is the Premier (Pronounced: Pree-miur). The Premier is the political leader whose party won election with the most number of seats and commands the confidence of the legislature. (The ceremonial head of state of each province is King Charles III, represented by a Lt Governor).

You should do a stand alone on Baldwin-Lafontaine and Responsible government. Most Canadians don’t anything about this either.

The English and Canadian governments seldom fulfilled their promises they made in treaties. In fact, because the aboriginal Canadians could seldom read or write, they weren't always told the truth about what was written. There is much litigation still going on today over land claims and treaty rights.

There are areas of Quebec that are pretty much english. Shawville/Pontiac area and Eastern Townships are pretty much all english.

Always enjoyable watching Tyler's reaction. This one in particular made me realised how our Heritage Minutes were made to remind us of historical event in Canada, not to teach about them. There is so much you can show-teach-learn in one minute.

You will understand better when you watch the Heritage Minute where Queen Victoria grants responsible government to the Canadas (Upper and Lower) as promoted by Lafontaine and Baldwin. The video will explain the historic importance better than this particular Heritage Minute, which mainly focused on the animosity between the French-speaking Members of Parliament (Quebec) and the English-speaking Members of Parliament (Ontario). Having a French candidate win in an election in solidly English Toronto (York) would cross linguistic lines and cultural differences in order to promote Responsible Government in Canada and the beginning of our political independence from Great Britain.

Upper Canada was Ontario (ish) and lower Canada was Quebec! Their first name if u will

There were two colonies called Canada, named according to their location on the St. Lawrence River: Upper Canada, (or Canada West), and Lower Canada (or Canada East), corresponding to the present day provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

York is Toronto's original name.

Cree Rules!

You missed that the surgeon died from the wound she experienced while operating on that man. Many promises to native people were not fulfilled in Canada but also in the US. The Oklahoma oil discoveries on native lands resulted in terrible atrocities.

Just saw the Sharon Temple a month ago!

Tyler, you should check out the Acadian Expulsion that started in 1775. Most of the French were expelled from the Maritimes (NB, P.E.I. & NS). Many were sent to New Orleans, so now you have Cajun. An English twist on Acadien.

Governor of a province in Canada is called a Premier

When it comes to the first one, 1841 is prior to the 1867 Constiution so we still had the same kinds of "Governors" and such that would have been familiar in the US, and after the 1837-38 rebellions (arguably our equivalent of a "civil war") there was all kinds of hostility between French and English, some of it remains to this day.

The Sharon Temple is in a small town north of Toronto Ontario called Sharon. Just a stone's throw from Newmarket

Upper Canada up the St Laurence River, and Lower Canada Down the St Laurence towards the ocean. Basically higher and lower elevations along the river. In 1841, it was the vote for the Governor for what's not the province of Quebec, or Lower Canada. At the time, it was under British rule, and British laws were prominent. The French Canadians were denied the vote, or to run for Governor because of English laws in Quebec. The English were afraid of an uprising that could have happened in Quebec. But such laws did not exist in Upper Canada/Ontario. The laws were re-written when a French Canadian ran and won, showing responsible Government in Upper Canada, so French Canadians could vote, and run for office in their home territory.

Remember 1867 is when Canada formed, as it was then. I’m learning about some things I never knew too, Tyler so that’s great 😊. Only vaguely remember something about Teasdale. You have some Cree people in the US too. Not as many. Many of the North American tribes are connected- they’re not all completely separated tribes. In Mexico there are connections too and rest of the Americas. But getting off topic now lol

On a map, Lower Canada is above Upper Canada. This is because they were named for their elevation, not compass directions.

That's the whole point of heritage minutes, not to feed you all the information but rather to get you to research further by giving you a starting point. Pre confederation like in 1841 there was Upper Canada (mostly in what is now Ontario) and Lower Canada (mostly in what is now Quebec) They had a governor back then, today we have a premier in provinces. York is what is now called Toronto and was very English, so a french person running or office in York and winning was unheard of.

I don't know if anyone has typed it, but a provincial leader is called a premier and the leader of Canada is called the Prime Minister.

Heritage minutes exist because Canadians also don’t know enough about our own heritage. Most of our media is American made. We all know about the American Revolution and Civil War more than we know this stuff. Indigenous peoples were pre-literate societies, so they didn’t use written treaties or history. Colonizers considered only written and signed documents to be binding. Some treaties were commemorated with ceremonial belts, called Wampum.

Upper and Lower Canada is about the St. Lawrence River.

As people explained, Upper Canada and Lower Canada are now Ontario and Québec. The names refer to elevation, as the Great Lakes are higher than sea level, hence why the Saint-Lawrence River flows from them to the sea. Upper Canada (Ontario) sits on top of the Great Lakes and the upper Saint-Lawrence River, while Lower Canada (Quebec) sits around the lower Saint-Lawrence River. Calling them with those names for September 1841 is a bit inaccurate, though. After the Act of Union in 1840, which joined Upper Canada and Lower Canada together, we would normally refer to them as Canada West and Canada East. (After seeing the Heritage Minute, they call it Ontario and Quebec, that sounds so wrong)

Always get a chuckle listening to Tyler pronounce french words and names. Law Fontaine rather than La Fontaine 😂

As different from the US Canada had to develop a responsible government, sanctioned by Queen Victoria, that protected all of its citizens. Tyler you have heard of Lafontaine before when you took the citizenship test. Both Australia and New Zealand followed in this process.

There are many unresolved 1st nation Treaty issues that that are still unresolved even today. This and the shame of Residential School policy of the Canadian Government are still a shame on the faces of us that are not of native decent.

The treaties were broken by the Canadian government. My first nation in Ontario is one of the Williams Treaties First Nations which consists of Rama, Beausoleil, Georgina Island, Scugog Island, Curve Lake, Hiawatha and Alderville. Together these Nations have a large Treaty area comprising Treaty 18, 16, 5, 20, 27, 27 1/4, Crawford Purchase and the Gunshot Treaty. There have been treaty negotiations with the government and these groups but I won't go into details as it is complex.

Tyler forgets his early videos lol. He learned about upper and lower canada

I'm a British Columbian of First Nation's decent and many of our First Nation's people haven't or won't sign a treaty with Canada because of how we have seen the many broken treaties, we are unceded.

Historically, The Upper Class of Upper Canada [Quebec] was "governed" by the Anglophone community until the 60's-70's.

Upper and Lower Canada... follow the flow of the river... the St. Lawrence.

I truly hope there's a Heritage minute about the Avro Arrow.

Leaders of provinces are officially called "First ministers", but no one uses that term and we call them "Premier" instead. In French, we use "Premier ministre" for both provincial and federal governments. A Prime minister should really be translated "Ministre Primordial", but it's sounds really dweeb in French so the same name was decided for both. And, yes, it was Lafontaine that got struck. This will be a half-assed summary, but there were a lot of tensions between French and English speakers in these times. Basically, some Anglo-Canadians didn't want to let French canadians vote, but Baldwin was an ally and him and Lafontaine both ran the country together. The Anglo Canadians in Québec actually burned down the Montréal parliament in 1849 because they thought French Speakers had too much rights.

These used to play before movies all the time. They hit different on the big screen.

Leader of Canada: Prime Minister. Provincial leaders: Primier. Feb.1841 first election after the 1791 Act of Union. In 1841 United Canada has a new constitution and Upper Canada becomes West Canada and Lower Canada becomes East Canada Upper Canada was named for being upstream from the St.Lawrence River (now Ontario) ; Lower Canada was named for being downstream from the St.Lawrence River (now Quebec, NB, NS, PEI).

17:13 The significance of poking a finger with the pen indicates the treaty was signed in blood.

some parts of Canada still has problems with the French and English.

"Quick cheat" think of "Upper Canada" as Ontario, and "Lower Canada" as Quebec. (based on the seaway to the Atlantic further UP river is Ontario) It was largely the divide between French and English "Canada" and the 2 largest populations... still is the 2 biggest.... Basics: English and French butt heads a lot in our history. the French "vote" (voters) were being suppressed and trying to vote for French representation could result in violence. However there were already "national" politics, so an English politician, Baldwin, reached out to a French politician, LaFontaine, to come to "English Canada" and run as part of his party to... help cooperation. Tyler: "Was this a good thing for the natives?" Me: no. Any treaty is white people saying "We're going to take your stuff, make it ours, and in turn we promise to give to... a little something back" and they may or may not actually fulfill those promises.

Peace and reconcilliation is an ongoing process, most treaties are being renegotiated or have been

Guys, go easy on Tyler, he also does a series learning and reacting to the UK, and he is American after all😁

My high school in Québec is named after Lucille Teasdale

Upper-Canada=english speaking & protestant (later became Ontario), Lower-Canada=french speaking & catholic. their Union gave birth the the pre-Confederation. Provincial leaders are called Premiers, except in Québec, where separatists changed it for prime minister, in an attempt to make him an equal to the federal prime minister. York was the name of Toronto in colonial time. Baldwin was an english-speaker who wanted peace with french speakers, thinking long-term about uniting Upper & Lower Canada. These 2 politicians (Baldwin & Lafontaine) prepared what was to become later Canada.

Wow hearing the nobs of knowledge. Upper Canada was at the top end of the Saint Lawrence river and lower Canada was at the bottom. Wow, some would write history to always be about (ME BETTER UOU BADDER) The river flowed from the upper St Lawrence to the lower. Those upper Canada and lower Canada. And Toronto was called York in the early 1800. So much for education………

I think the second one was a movie. But I'm not sure 😂

1:26 Upper-Canada was the province of Quebec while lower-canada was Ontario during British rule over the territory

There weren't many other parts of Canada in those days.

The financial establishment mainly spoke english The french were quote unquote "slaves" or real cheap labor!!!!!! It made the french Canadians quite mad the the establishment would not let the french vote Hence why their is still some Quebecers that wants to seperate (still)

York became Toronto, Upper Canada because it was up river, Lower Canada because it was down river, Canada wasn't a country yet.

York changed its name to Toronto. The orangemen were anti-french. Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec). The late Queen Elizabeth (King Charles's mom) used to refer to us as The Canadas. State Governor=Provincial Premier = Provinces no longer have Senates. The Senate only exists Federally. Treaty 9 is in Northern Ontario - MP Charlie Angus brought it up a lot during debates in the HOC - House of Commons (ie Congress). Treaties are the founding documents of a nation, which is why they were signed. The Cree were lied to. The oral agreement and what was written down were very different. At the time of the video I sent you, they had unearthed one of the negotiator's papers where he said they had to lie to the Cree to get them to sign the agreement. Charlie Angus is a master storyteller - so it is not staid the link to the video I sent you

Lol I saw LaFontaine and was very confused because I thought you were reacting to hockey again (Fantastic player named Pat LaFontaine) but he is American hence my confusion lol.

I like how he asked York is near Toronto. Yet he just learned very recently that Toronto used to be called York.

Ruling Provincial political party leaders are called Premiers. Damn you! You have such a positive attitude towards filling you knowledge voids. I did poorly in school but all i wanted to do was learn geography and anthropology. You and very few other things make me want to be a school teacher like my dad and my grandfather. For example you ponder the meaning of upper and lower Canada, while im dying inside because i could talk about that and just about everything else that you come across in these videos at great length. Unfortunately, for every student with a open mind such as yourself , there are countless who are just in school to fill a seat or they're smart but have no intrest in expanding their knowledge horizons. Cheers from Professor Bogfoot III 😅

The leader of a province is a premier.

The head of a province is a Provincial prime minister

Responsible government is a system of governance in which the executive (prime minister and cabinet) is responsible to the legislature. If the legislature has no confidence in the government, it can vote "no confidence," the government falls and an election is held. The executive needs to command a majority in the legislature to survive. This is parliamentary democracy and is as unlike the American system of checks and balances as chalk and cheese.

Between 1867 and 1982 Canada was a Dominion of the British, in that period Canada's constitution was still held and controlled by the British and the laws still were looked over by the House of Lords. July 1st, 1982 is significant because Canada got full control of its constitution and became its own country. Canada's progression: Indigenous Nations ----> French colony ----> English colony (upper & lower Canada) ----> Dominion of Canada (colony with partial independence) ----> Country of Canada (fully independent) While the French colonizers were not saints by any stretch of the imagination, the English were terrible on an entirely different level, and it got even worse after the US war of Independence when many British loyalists migrated north into Canada. Selling the British Crown to make Canada a Dominion with the proposal or responsible government took a good effort and still had British oversight over laws and policies. Canada's full independence was a slow political grind of gaining more and more independent control and removing British oversight. The sad reality is it has only been a little over 40 years since being fully free of the British, and the amount to clean up from the damage done during the time as a colony and dominion is enormous.

That’s what this heritage moment is about is the fact that the English were trying to push the French out.

As people already mention Lower Canada was province of Québec and upper canada was province of Ontario. Canada was under a military ruling back then the soldier only obeying the General-Governor. The British wanted to assimilate completely both French and Natives to English language and protestant Anglican religion. The brit military and some english militants blocked the polling stations sio that the vote was kinda rig by not allowing non-white anglo-saxon-protestants to vote. Baldwin saw that was going strait to civil war and thus made shure that Lafontaine got elected so that the governor failled to exclude french from creating what's now the federal parliement as a responsible government and thus the "creation" of provinces of Québec and Ontario then invited Nova-Scotia and New Brunswick to join the Federation. If Balwin didn't do that Canada as we know it wouldn't exist!

FYI York is old name of Toronto

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Have you heard the new version of Oh Canada by the band Classified?

Heritage Minute Monday!

Sharon Temple is a very cool building north of Toronto, but it isn't part of the video

Leader of Provinces is called the Primiere

A premier is the head of the government at the provincial level.