Province of Quebec (1763–1791)
The Province of Quebec was a colony in North America that was created by Great Britain after the Seven Years' War in which the British acquired New France by the Treaty of Paris (1763). After a long debate, France negotiated to keep Guadeloupe, a small island in the Caribbean,[1] which was rich in sugar, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, small islands in the Atlantic with major fishery resources.
In the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the British renamed Canada, which was part of New France, to the Province of Quebec.[2] The province extended from the coast of Labrador, on the Atlantic Ocean, southwest through the Saint Lawrence River Valley to the Great Lakes and beyond to the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers.[3]
Portions of its southwest, below the Great Lakes, were ceded to the United States in the Treaty of Paris (1783), which ended the American Revolutionary War.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Colin G. Calloway (2006). The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. Oxford U.P. p. 8.
- ↑ R. Douglas Francis; Richard Jones; Donald B. Smith, Journeys: A History of Canada (Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009), p. 98
- ↑ Accounts and papers, Volume 6 (Great Britain House of Commons, 1851), p. 72
