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From: Suzanne B Sommerville <>
Subject: Re: [QUEBEC] The Province of Quebec
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 05:50:23 -0500


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>In a proclamation dated Oct. 7, 1763 the French inhabitants
of the City of Quebec, once the capital of New France,
are learning the price of defeat today.

By Royal Proclamation, New France no longer exists.
In its place is the new province of Quebec, and it's a much
smaller territory.
Under the new law, derived from the treaty between England and
France, Quebec's borders no longer run south to the Mississippi
and east to Newfoundland. Instead, the new province lies in a
rectangular region, centred on the St. Lawrence River. All its
other lands - the interior, the islands in the Gulf of St.Lawrence
and those on the Mississippi - have been carved away.
The British have promised Quebec parliamentary rule in the future.
(Page 105 - Chronicle of Canada by Chronicle Publications, Montreal)

I do hope that this will clear up this issue.
Bon soir, mon ami,
John Merz<

Just one addition, John. The present cities of Detroit and Windsor, and
the whole détroit or Detroit River / Lake Saint(e) Clair(e), Saint(e)
Clair(e) River area on both sides were very much part of the Province of
Québec until the Americans _officially_ claimed possession of the
"northern" shore of the Detroit River in 1796. Even then, there was some
sharing of jurisdiction until the new officials settled in. The "south"
shore then became part of the Province of Québec or, as you said, later to
be Upper Canada, Canada West, and finally the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Suzanne
Suzanne Boivin Sommerville
Michigan, USA


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