page_title: Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe
section_title: Governor General of the Province of Canada
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe / Career / Governor General of the Province of Canada
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument of Charles Metcalfe in St. William Grant Park in Kingston
context_page_description: Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, 1st Baron Metcalfe, GCB PC, known as Sir Charles Metcalfe, Bt between 1822 and 1845, was a British colonial administrator. He held appointments including acting Governor-General of India, Governor of Jamaica and Governor General of the Province of Canada.
context_section_description: Six months afterwards he was appointed by the Peel ministry to the post of Governor General of the Province of Canada with instructions to resist further development of responsible government. A clash soon emerged between Metcalfe and the leaders of the legislative assembly, Robert Baldwin and Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine. Despite suffering from worsening cancer, he fought to preserve the prerogatives of the Crown and the governor's control over the administration and patronage. He nonetheless had to make some concessions to win support, and the most notable of these was persuading the Colonial Office to grant amnesty to the rebels of 1837-38, and to abandon forced anglicization of the French-speaking population.
caption: Monument of Charles Metcalfe in St. William Grant Park in Kingston, Jamaica
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