10+February

10 February Canada is a series of relationships, and today we examined the beginning of the evolution in the relationship between the British and Quebecois people in British North America after the conquest of 1759. In particular we discussed the cause and consequence of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, and the Quebec Act of 1774. We also introduced the concept of the "peace and friendship treaties" the British signed with Aboriginal peoples living in British North America at this time, and foreshadowed about the future importance of these treaties to Aboriginal peoples. We went on to examine life in Lower Canada after the conquest - particularly the Seigneural System and the struggle for power between the Seigneurs, the intellectual elite and the Church.