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Province of Quebec (1763–91)
The
Province of Quebec
was a colony in
North America
created by
Great Britain
after the
Seven Years' War
. Great Britain acquired
French Canada
by the
Treaty of Paris
in which (after a long debate) France negotiated to keep the small but very rich sugar island of
Guadeloupe
instead. By Britain's
Royal Proclamation of 1763
, Canada (part of New France) was renamed the Province of Quebec. 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
Mississippi Rivers
. 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
.
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