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Title: Ontario High School History of England
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Wrong, George M
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Publisher: Toronto : The MacMillan Company of Canada
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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he crown was di-rected, and very wisely directed,byhim. Without doubt, the factthat the sovereign was a woman tended to weaken herpolitical influence. Parliament steadily restricted the royalauthority. It took away from the queen the control of thearmy; and the right of pardoning condemned criminals,hitherto belonging to the sovereign, was now vested in aminister of state. Prince Alberts share in the work of thegovernment in itself, no doubt, tended to put the queen inthe back-ground, and after his death, in 1861, her life-long sorrow led her to seek retirement. Her infrequentappearance at the opening or closing of Parliament madethe public realize that the sovereign played but a small partin political life. In the end, the queen frankly acceptedlimitations that no previous sovereign would have acknowl-edged. I am bound by certain rules and usages, she saidto Napoleon III; I have no uncontrolled power of decision;I must adopt the advice of a council of ministers. VlCTOUlA ( l.MJ-lOUl)
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MODERN BRITAIN 473 Her personal character always commanded weight andrespect. She was a devout Christian, and the tone ofher court was pure to the point of austerity. Thebitter grief of her life quickened her sympathies, anddeveloped in her a strength and tenderness that won deepaffection. Rebellion in Canada, 1837.—Armed rebellion in Canadamarked the first months of the reign of Victoria. The countryhad been ceded to Britain by France in 1763, and, sincethen, had been ruled by governors who often paid slightheed to the wishes of the Canadian people. Yet Canada hadits Parliament. The Quebec Act, passed in 1774 (p. 403),had, indeed, made government wholly despotic, but when,after the American Revolution, settlers of British origin, Loyalists, driven from the United States because of theirdevotion to their king, began to settle in parts of Canada, ithad been necessary to give them some voice in the controlof affairs. In 1791, therefore, a new Constitution Actdivided Canada into two pr

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