Province of Quebec (1763–1791)
British colony of Quebec from 1763 to 1791 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Province of Quebec (French: Province de Québec) was a colony in British North America which comprised the former French colony of Canada. It was established by the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763, following the conquest of New France by British forces during the Seven Years' War. As part of the 1763 Treaty of Paris, France gave up its claim to the colony; it instead negotiated to keep the small profitable island of Guadeloupe.[1]
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Province of Quebec | |||||||||||||||
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1763–1791 | |||||||||||||||
Anthem: "God Save the King" | |||||||||||||||
Status | British colony | ||||||||||||||
Capital | Quebec | ||||||||||||||
Common languages | French • English | ||||||||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism, Protestantism | ||||||||||||||
Government | Constitutional monarchy | ||||||||||||||
King | |||||||||||||||
• 1760–1791 | George III | ||||||||||||||
Governor | |||||||||||||||
• 1764–1766 (first)[lower-alpha 1] | James Murray | ||||||||||||||
Guy Carleton | |||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
10 February 1763 | |||||||||||||||
7 October 1763 | |||||||||||||||
22 June 1774 | |||||||||||||||
26 December 1791 | |||||||||||||||
Currency | Canadian pound | ||||||||||||||
ISO 3166 code | CA | ||||||||||||||
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Following the Royal Proclamation of 1763, Canada was renamed the Province of Quebec, and from 1774 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 Mississippi Rivers. Portions of its southwest, those areas south of the Great Lakes, were later ceded to the newly established United States in the 1783 Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the American Revolution; although the British maintained a military presence there until 1796 and the Jay Treaty. In 1791, the territory north of the Great Lakes was reorganised and divided into Lower Canada and Upper Canada.