 This led to a retention of older pronunciations, such as for () and expressions that later died out in France.In 1774, the Quebec Act guaranteed French settlers as British subjects rights to French law, the Roman Catholic faith and the French language to appease them at a moment when the English-speaking colonies to the south were on the verge of revolting in the American Revolution.After Canadian Confederation in 1867, Quebec started to become industrialized and thus experienced increased contact between French and English speakers.