Excerpt from Bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada: July, 1918; Sir George Arthur and His Administration of Upper Canada

After his return to England in March, 1837, Colonel Arthilr received the Hanoverian Order of Knighthood. At the close of the same year he was appointed lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada and at the same time given the military rank and command of a major-general on the staff. Sir George Arthur was now nearly sixty years of age and had been for over twenty-two years a colonial governor. During that period he had wielded almost despotic power. It was not at all likely that he would be inclined to look with favour upon the demands of the Upper Canadian Reformers for Responsi ble Government.

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