Season 1 Episode 9 : Étienne Parent

The Conquest of 1760 raised problems of coexistence between Canadians and the British, two peoples who were distinguished by language, religion, civil and legal codes or, quite simply, by mentality and customs. The Constitutional Act of 1791 attempted to remedy this by dividing the colony into two, Loyalist Upper Canada (now Ontario) and Lower Canada (now Quebec), which allowed the two peoples to develop. through representative institutions.