Province of Quebec (1763-1791)

The Province of Quebec (in English Province off Quebec ) was a colony of North America created by the Great Britain following the Guerre Seven Year old and having existed of 1763 to 1791. Its capital was Quebec. Great Britain had acquired Canada (heart of the News-France) by the Traité of Paris (1763) when the king of France Louis XV and its advisers chose to preserve their possessions of the the Antilles whose production of sugar and others seemed more invaluable to them. By the royal Proclamation of 1763, Canada took off the name of Province Quebec .

In 1774, the British Parliament adopted the Acte of Quebec which made it possible to maintain in force the French Civil code and authorized the freedom of religion, which made it possible the Catholic church to be maintained. This act also redefines the borders of the province to include there the territory of Ohio and that of the Illinois, delimited by the the Appalachian Mountains in extreme cases the east, the river Ohio in the south, the the Mississippi in the west, and southern of the grounds of the Compagnie of Hudson Bay (called Ground of Rupert) in north.

The British crown preserved thanks to the province of Quebec an access to the territories of Ohio and Illinois even after the treated of Paris of 1783 had had to put the the United States in possession of these territories. By the military and commercial roads passing by the Big lakes, the British were able to supply their troops like their Amerindian allies starting from Détroit, Fort the Niagara or Fort Michilimackinac for example, until these fortified towns are returned to the United States by the treated of London of 1795.

As from 1783, the limits of the province thus correspond to the southern part of the current provinces of the Quebec and the Ontario.

The province preserved the mode seigneurial of before the conquète. However, an surge of refugees Loyalistes fleeing the American revolution started to make move the demographic composition of the province, introducing there an anglophone element, Anglican or protesting. These immigrants were established mainly in the Cantons of the East, with Montreal and in what was then known like the country of in top , in the west of the Outaouais.

In 1791, the constitutional Acte put an end to the legal existence of the Province of Quebec by dividing it into two colonies. The part in the west of Outaouais took the name of High-Canada, and, having a population almost entirely anglophone, was established under the British legal mode. The east part was called Low-Canada.

Governors of the Province of Quebec 1763-1791

After the capitulation of Montreal in 1760, the News-France was placed under military administration. The civil government was instituted in 1764.

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