by Samuel James Watson,
Vol. I., p. 128.

[30] The abuses specified in the present chapter were not confined to
Upper Canada. They existed, with certain local variations, throughout
all the British North American colonies, and produced similar results in
each; viz., ever-recurring conflicts between the Executive and the
popular branch of the Legislature, followed by more or less alienation
of loyalty to the mother country on the part of the more radical element
in the community. In the Maritime Provinces the alienation was not
sufficiently widespread to manifest itself in actual rebellion, though
the conflict between the oligarchy and the popular tribunes sometimes
produced a very disturbed state of feeling. In Lower Canada, where the
element of race-hatred was added to all other sources of disturbance,
the conflict attained an intensity far beyond what was reached in any of
the other colonies, and left traces behind it which are not even yet
wholly obliterated.

[31] _Statistical Account_, Vol. II., p. 296.

[32] _Canadiana_, by W. B. Wells, p. 103.

[33] Ib.

[34] Ib., p. 104.

[35] These grants of five thousand acres to members of the Executive
Council were in direct violation of the instructions framed by the Home
Government for the regulation of land-granting in Upper Canada. They
continued to be made down to 1807, when they were stopped by a
peremptory order to that effect from the Colonial Secretary. There is
one instance on record of a reserve being applied for and made on behalf
of the child of a member of the Legislative Council, though the child
was not three days old. See the evidence of John Radenhurst, Chief Clerk
in the office of the Surveyor-General, in Appendix B. to Lord Durham's
_Report on the Affairs of British North America_.

[36] Most of these facts with reference to the granting of public lands
may be obtained from the archives of the Crown Lands Office in Toronto,
and from the newspapers and official reports of the period. They may
also be found, together with a vast accumulation of other important
facts bearing on the same subject, in Charles Buller's Report on Public
Lands and Emigration, forming Appendix B. to Lord Durham's _Report on
the Affairs of British North America_.

[37] _Canadiana_, p. 130.

[38] In 1796 or thereabouts the Executive offered to grant entire
townships to persons who would undertake to settle them with a certain
number of colonists within a specified time.