Sociо-economic and political development of Canada in the 50th of the 19th century

The impact of influence of rapid industrial growth in Canada on formation of constitutional system in the North American colonies in the 1850’s as one of major factors of formation of the new colonial structure is revealed. The authors concludes the following: a significant factor in the formation of the constitutional order in Canada in addition to industrial development are also Canadian-American relations, which led to the negative reaction of the UK; also it is revealed that by the end of the 1850’s the constitutional crisis in Canada has assumed a global scale in the view of mercantile policy of the Great Britain that didn’t want to lose influence in colonies and that became subsequently the reason of providing the status of the Dominion to Canada.