Diary Entry: 7

June 22, 1793
Dear Diary,
 There was something all over the newspapers in Canada, something called a government structure. Something like: 

Government Structure after 1791

From the opinions fo many people of the British government, the American Revolution resulted from too much democracy. 

Wait, what is this... democracy? Why do newspapers use so many big words? Here, let me go look it up on a dictionary...democracy....democracy...here! Democracy: a government in which the population elect all or some of their government. Ok...that doesn't really make any sense, but let's just move on with the article.

The British think that the Thirteen Colonies had gained too much power over the British governors.

Ok, I'm  not going to read anymore, because this isn't making any sense. I mean, who's a governor? I thought we had a king...What does gain mean? I'm pretty sure that this is all anybody would talk about, so I'm going to go study. 

Love, 

Kristen Taylor 

P.S. I'll be studying for a long time...I have trouble reading

August 13, 1792

Dear Diary,

 See? I told you it'd take a long time. I mean, it took me nearly half a year to learn the definition of government, governor, gain, and structure. And the other part of the year I was reading newspapers. They were talking about something like...the Government of Upper Canada. But I  still don't get it. What's legislative? Anyways, I'm riding my horse right now, carrying some man name John Simcoe. Well, I wasn't carrying him, I was giving him a ride, to Newark, which was the capital of the colony, and his job was to report to Lord Dorchester (Sir Guy Carleton) who was the new governor of the two Canadas. Carleton was in Quebec by the way. Although, for some reason, he would keep on talking to me about his...problems, on the ride there. He was saying that he didn't think that Newark was a good location for the capital. He was still 'thinking' about the memories of the American Revolution. He was concerned - whatever that means - about the future conflict - would he stop using such big words? - with the United States, because Newark was right on the American borders - what's that supposed to mean? - so the capital would be an easy target. Then he said that his 'dream' is to build a colony that looked like England, and build a capital city and name it London. But his first goal was to build a military base. So he 'turned his eyes' to York - what was that supposed to mean?

I'll be back after I understand what these words mean...

Love, 

Kristen Taylor