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Essays and addresses" In the first period Law and Equity were rather loosely combined : in the second, there was no equitable jurisdiction : in the third, Law and Equity were administered by different Courts (speaking generally), and in the fourth there is the complete and formal fusion of Law and Equity. Only the first period is to be dealt with in these papers. When by the Treaty of Paris, Canada was ceded to Brit- ain in 1763, the number of white settlers in what afterwards became the province of Upper Canada and later the prov- ince of Ontario, was very small and the chief part of that small number was on the south or left bank of the Detroit Eiver. The first official report we have of that settlement 1 shews that in 1752 there were twenty habitants etablis sur le cote sud de la riviere. These were continually increasing in number till in 1761 we find between three and four hundred of a population. prev next |