Robert Shore Milnes

Robert Shore Milnes (about 1754 - December 2nd, 1837) is a British colonial administrator who was lieutenant-governor of the Low-Canada.

Lieutenant-governor

After a military career, Milnes leaves the army in 1788 and becomes in 1795 governor of the Martinique for one short period. In 1797 it is named lieutenant-governor of Low-Canada, and on July 30th, 1799 it replaces the governor Robert Prescott when this last is recalled in Great Britain. With its come to power, the party of the British is torn by a quarrel about the ground concessions.

Milnes tries to support the emergence of a British aristocracy vis-a-vis in the majority Canadian , and the assimilation of the latter in an anglophone and Protestant company. To resolve the dead end about the distribution of the grounds in new the cantons, it authorizes the attribution of approximately 1400000 acres (5670 km2) to an about sixty great landowners. However, this measurement delays the establishment of British colonists rather than she encourages it.

Milnes as tries to take a certain control on the Chambre from assembly and the catholic clergy, although it was less radical as certain British like the bishop Jacob Mountain, the public prosecutor Jonathan Sewell or the civil secretary Hermann Witsius Ryland. In 1801 it succeeds in making pass a law creating the royal Institution for the advance of sciences , who established a network of only anglophone public schools. It also tries without success to abolish the system seigneurial.

Milnes embarks for England on August 5th, 1805 and was replaced as administrator by the business man Thomas Dunn and will not play any more a determining role in the Canadian businesses.

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  • Note on the biographical Dictionary of Canada

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