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FINAL HONOURS.

COLONIAL HISTORY.

SECOND PAPER.

(Candidates are recommended to attempt any five questions).

1. Illustrate from the history of Australia the good and bad effects of Penal Colonies.

2. To what causes do you attribute the decline of the prosperity of the West Indies in the 19th century?

3. How far has the history of Australia been influenced by geographical conditions?

4. What were the chief causes of the Boer trek of 1836-9?

5. "At each critical point in South African history, England has taken the wrong turning." Explain and discuss

this statement.

6. What are the lines of thought which met in the "Little England" movement?

7. What changes have been brought about in British Colonial policy by the entrance of Germany into world politics?

8. Account for the recrudescence in the 19th century of Chartered Companies as a method of government.

9. Do you consider Cecil Rhodes to have been a great Imperialist, or merely a great financier?

10. What were the causes of the South African war of 1899-1901?

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FINAL HONOURS.

COLONIAL HISTORY.

THIRD PAPER.

(Candidates are recommended to attempt five questions, chosen from both parts of the paper).

A.

1. "A Jesuit mission, grafted on a fur-trading post." How far is this a fair description of French Canada?

2. Write a short life of either Champlain, or Laval, or Frontenac.

3. Draw a map, showing the chief posts held by France in North America in 1756.

4. Give an account, with a sketch map, of the Quebec campaign of 1759.

5. Account for the readiness with which France gave up Canada in 1763.

B.

6. In what respects did the feudal tenures weigh more heavily on the habitant after 1763 than before?

7. Give the chief provisions of the Quebec Act. Discuss the motives of the British Government in introducing it.

8. In what respects did the views of Carleton in his second term of office differ from those of his first?

9. In what respects was the Constitutional Act the result of the American revolution?

10. Give an account, with a sketch map, of any one campaign in the war of 1812.

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1. "The grievances of Upper Canada in 1837 were in the main economic." Explain and examine this statement.

2. Discuss the relations between Upper and Lower Canada in the years 1815-36.

3. "The triumph of Lord Sydenham would have been short-lived." Explain and examine this statement.

4. Examine the claims of Joseph Howe to be considered Canada's greatest statesman.

5. "The real parent of the Confederation of 1867 was Dead-lock." Explain and examine this statement.

6. In what ways had Seigniorial tenure become by 1854 a hindrance to progress?

7. To what extent has Canada a written constitution?

8. Estimate the part played by Canadian railways in our constitutional development.

9. Give an account of any of the Canadian-American boundary disputes.

10. Compare the Canadian constitution with that of either Australia, or South Africa, or the U. S. A.

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