What is Province of Quebec (1763–1791)?
[[File:Province of Quebec 1763, 1774, 1784.gif|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Provence of Quebec, 1763, 1774 and 1783}}]] The '''Province of Quebec''' was a colony in North America. It was created by [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] after the [[Seven Years' War]]. Great Britain acquired [[Canada, New France|French Canada]] by the [[Treaty of Paris (1763)]]. After a long [[debate]] [[France]] [[Negotiation|negotiated]] to keep the small [[island]] of [[Guadeloupe]] in the [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Colin G. Calloway|title=The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XtxG369-VHQC&pg=PA8|year=2006|publisher=Oxford U.P.|page=8}}</ref> Guadeloupe was rich in [[sugar]]. By Britain's [[Royal Proclamation of 1763]], Canada (part of New France) was renamed the Province of Quebec.<ref>R. Douglas Francis; Richard Jones; Donald B. Smith, ''Journeys: A History of Canada'' (Toronto: Nelson Education, 2009), p. 98</ref> 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 River|Ohio]] and [[Mississippi River]]s.<ref>''Accounts and papers'', Volume 6 (Great Britain House of Commons, 1851), p. 72</ref> Portions of its southwest (below the Great Lakes) were later ceded to the United States in a later [[Treaty of Paris (1783)]] at the conclusion of the [[American Revolution]]. == References == {{reflist}} {{history-stub}} [[Category:History of Quebec]] [[Category:British North America|Q]] [[Category:1760s establishments in North America]]