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From: "Francis T. Watters" <>
Subject: Re: [QUEBEC] The Province of Quebec
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 10:17:45 -0500
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From: "Suzanne B Sommerville" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: [QUEBEC] The Province of Quebec


> Message text written by INTERNET:
> >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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