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John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham (1792-1840), known as Radical Jack because he had supported the Great Reform bill of 1832 was sent to North America in 1838 to investigate the circumstances of the rebellions of 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada and to make recommendations for the future government of the British North American colonies. His investigation led to the publication, in 1839, of the famous Durham Report in which he recommended that Upper and Lower Canada be united, that responsible government be granted, that French Canadians be assimilated and that municipal institutions be established. For the most part, the Report examined the situation in Lower Canada where the problems had been most serious. In that part of British North America the problem, according to Durham, was not mainly political. Rather it was "racial." In Quebec, Durham had found "two nations warring in the bosom of a single state," and it is largely to rectify that situation that he advocated the union of the two Canadas which would lead slowly, he believed, to the assimilation of the French Canadians. Accordingly the Report received mixed reactions in Canada; Durham was hailed as a statesman by Reformers in Upper Canada for recommending the granting of responsible government and as a racist in Lower Canada for proposing the assimilation of French Canadians.
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